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Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch) vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-07-30.

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch) Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B
Vendoranthropicqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score94.365.2
Input Price$2.50/M$0.30/M
Output Price$12.50/M$2.00/M
Context Window1,000,000262,144
Max Output128,00065,536
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index91.961.1
ai_index_agentic77.844.6
ai_index_coding100.088.6
eqbench83.3-

Who wins by task?

TaskAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B
SQL Generation 177 159
Code Review 178 152
Code Completion 121 130
Code Refactoring 176 148
Bug Fixing 191 162
Unit Test Generation 161 144
Code Documentation 148 134
Regex Writing 138 131
CI/CD Pipelines 151 135
Frontend Component Design 150 140
Data Analysis 176 158
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 158 145
ETL Scripting 163 142
JSON Extraction 138 146
Bulk Data Labeling 123 134
OCR / Document Parsing 149 141
Table Extraction from PDFs 149 141
Long-Document Summarization 170 145
Short-Form Summarization 123 129
Blog Post Writing 146 132

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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