Which is better, Claude Opus 4.8 or Qwen3.5 35B A3B?

Across 48 shared benchmarks tracked on Vector Wire, Claude Opus 4.8 leads on 45 and Qwen3.5 35B A3B leads on 3 — Claude Opus 4.8 leads on more. Strengths differ by axis; the table below shows every head-to-head number with provenance.

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Claude Opus 4.8 vs Qwen3.5 35B A3B

AnthropicvsAlibaba48 shared benchmarks45–3 head-to-head

Benchmark	Claude Opus 4.8	Qwen3.5 35B A3B
AA Agentic Index	49.4	44.1
AA Intelligence	57.3	29.9
AA-LCR	73	68.3
AA-Omniscience	28.8	-48.1
AgentWorldBench - Android	61.5	53.2
AgentWorldBench - MCP	54.9	57.9
AgentWorldBench - OS	66.6	56.3
AgentWorldBench - Overall	56.6	47.7
AgentWorldBench - Search	35.1	26
AgentWorldBench - SWE	64.1	47.6
AgentWorldBench - Terminal	59.2	46.1
AgentWorldBench - Web	54.7	47.1
aime_2026	100	93.3
Artificial Analysis Coding Index	74.3	37
browsecomp	88.5	61
charxiv_rq	80.5	77.5
coding_arena_elo	1539	1250
critpt	20.9	0.9
gdpval	54.2	20.3
GPQA Diamond	93.6	84.5
HLE	57.9	47.4
hmmt_feb_2026	96.7	81.8
hmmt_nov_2025	96.5	89.2
IFBench	62.2	72.5
imo_answer_bench	83.5	76.8
include	87.6	79.7
longbench_v2	69.1	59
mathvision	86.7	83.9
MCP Atlas	83.6	62.4
MMMU-Pro	78.9	75.1
MMVU	79.2	72.3
nl2repo	69.7	20.5
OmniScience Accuracy	48.8	20.1
OmniScience Non-Hallucination	60.7	14.6
OSWorld-Verified	83.4	54.5
scicode	53.5	37.7
screenspot_pro_no_tools	87.9	68.6
SWE-bench Multilingual	84.4	60.3
SWE-bench Pro	69.2	44.6
SWE-bench Verified	88.6	70
TauBench V3 - Banking	34.2	4.9
Terminal-Bench 2.0	74.6	40.5
Terminal-Bench 2.1	85	40.8
Terminal-Bench Hard	58.3	26.5
tool_decathlon	59.9	28.7
WideSearch	72.9	59.1
τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)	94.4	89.2
τ³-Bench	27.6	68.9

Best tracked score per model per benchmark (default configuration; source-attributed). ↓ marks lower-is-better metrics. Open either model for its full surface, provenance and pricing.