Which is better, Claude Opus 4.8 or Qwen3.5 4B?

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Qwen3.5 4B

24 SHARED BENCHMARKS

Across 24 shared benchmarks, Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on 24 and Qwen3.5 4B on 0. The widest gap is gdpval, where Claude Opus 4.8 scores 49.5 against 8.3. Qwen3.5 4B is the cheaper of the two on tracked API pricing ($0.03 against $5.00 per million input tokens).

ANTHROPICVSALIBABA24 SHARED24–0 HEAD-TO-HEAD

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8MARGINQwen3.5 4B

AA Agentic Index42.636.3

AA Intelligence4220

AA-LCR77.763

AA-Omniscience28.8-58.4

aime_202610099

Artificial Analysis Coding Index74.322.6

critpt20.90

gdpval49.58.3

GPQA Diamond93.677.1

HLE57.99.9

hmmt_feb_202696.784.1

IFBench62.259.2

include87.671

longbench_v269.150

MMMU-Pro78.965.4

OmniScience Accuracy48.815.1

OmniScience Non-Hallucination60.713.4

scicode54.418.3

TauBench V3 - Banking34.26.8

Terminal-Bench 2.18525.8

Terminal-Bench Hard58.318.2

τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)94.492.1

τ³-Bench27.68.2

τ³-Bench Banking27.65.5

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. Quoted rates are the price-setter row we currently track for each model — its direct or vendor-official listing where one exists (anthropic-official, direct), otherwise the lowest tracked offer.

Compare Claude Opus 4.8 withALL PAIRINGS →

AnthropicClaude Opus 4.6 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Claude 3.5 Sonnet Claude Fable 5 Claude Opus 4.5 Claude Opus 5

Across the fieldGemini 3.6 Flash Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B GPT-5.5 GPT-4o GPT-5.6 Sol Gemini 3.1 Pro GPT-5.4 GPT-5.2

Compare Qwen3.5 4B withALL PAIRINGS →

AlibabaQwen3.5 35B A3B Qwen3 VL 4B (Reasoning)Qwen3.5 397B A17B Qwen2.5 Instruct 72B Qwen3.5 27B Qwen3.6 Plus

Across the fieldGPT-4o GPT-5.6 Sol Gemini 3.1 Pro GPT-5.4 GPT-5.2 Claude Opus 4.6 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Claude 3.5 Sonnet