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Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 (batch) vs Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 (batch) Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B
Vendoranthropicqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score100.055.6
Input Price$2.00/M$0.42/M
Output Price$10.00/M$3.00/M
Context Window1,000,0001,000,000
Max Output128,000131,072
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index95.155.6

Who wins by task?

TaskAnthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 (batch)Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B
SQL Generation 144 140
Code Review 150 142
Code Completion 119 132
Code Refactoring 151 144
Bug Fixing 154 146
Unit Test Generation 135 130
Code Documentation 138 136
Regex Writing 127 124
CI/CD Pipelines 131 126
Frontend Component Design 133 128
Data Analysis 138 132
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 136 135
ETL Scripting 141 135
JSON Extraction 121 131
Bulk Data Labeling 118 129
OCR / Document Parsing 135 133
Table Extraction from PDFs 135 133
Long-Document Summarization 152 146
Short-Form Summarization 118 126
Blog Post Writing 132 128

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

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