Claude Opus 5.5 vs Qwen3.8 Max Preview
27 SHARED BENCHMARKSAcross 27 shared benchmarks, Claude Opus 5.5 scores higher on 24 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview on 3. The widest gap is AA-Omniscience, where Claude Opus 5.5 scores 46.4 against 12. Qwen3.8 Max Preview is the cheaper of the two on tracked API pricing ($2.00 against $4.00 per million input tokens).
At a glance
Release dates: the vendor's own announcement for Claude Opus 5.5; Artificial Analysis for Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Prices: Artificial Analysis for Claude Opus 5.5; Artificial Analysis for Qwen3.8 Max Preview. ◆ = independently verified score.
Where each leadsby capability area · benchmark wins
Biggest gaps
Claude Opus 5.5 pulls furthest ahead on
- AA-Omniscience · Accuracy66.2 vs 31.7
- FrontierMath Tier 495 vs 46.3
- CritPt31.7 vs 17.7
Qwen3.8 Max Preview pulls furthest ahead on
- AA-Omniscience · Non-hallucination71.2 vs 41.4
- LiveBench · Instruction Following74.1 vs 65.7
Every shared benchmark27 · grouped by area
Reasoning 3
Coding 5
Agentic 3
Factuality 3
Instruction Following 1
Long Context 1
Math 3
Multimodal 1
Other shared benchmarks 7
Each score is the one the model's own page shows — the most authoritative tracked result for that benchmark, on the benchmark's standard methodology (source-attributed). ↓ marks lower-is-better metrics; ◆ an independently verified score. 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 (direct, direct), otherwise the lowest tracked offer.