Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 vs Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max Prime
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-08.
| Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 | Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max Prime | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | anthropic | qwen |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 73.6 | - |
| Input Price | $0.10/M | $4.00/M |
| Output Price | $0.50/M | $12.00/M |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
| Max Output | 128,000 | 131,072 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 71.6 | - |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.23 and Qwen3.8 Max Prime costs $7.00, so Claude Haiku 5.5 is about 31.1 times cheaper for the same work.
Both read up to 1,000,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,500 pages of text.
Only Qwen3.8 Max Prime offers video input.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Claude Haiku 5.5 scores higher on 20 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
Claude Haiku 5.5 was released in October 2026 and Qwen3.8 Max Prime in September 2026.
Pick Claude Haiku 5.5 if you need lower cost or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Qwen3.8 Max Prime if you need video input.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 | Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max Prime |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 142 | 132 |
| Code Review | 145 | 132 |
| Code Completion | 133 | 116 |
| Code Refactoring | 147 | 136 |
| Bug Fixing | 149 | 136 |
| Unit Test Generation | 132 | 124 |
| Code Documentation | 138 | 128 |
| Regex Writing | 127 | 116 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 128 | 120 |
| Frontend Component Design | 130 | 122 |
| Data Analysis | 134 | 124 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 136 | 132 |
| ETL Scripting | 138 | 128 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 120 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 129 | 117 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 134 | 131 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 134 | 131 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 149 | 136 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 127 | 112 |
| Blog Post Writing | 130 | 120 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →