Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 (batch) vs Qwen: Qwen3.8 Omni Flash
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 (batch) | Qwen: Qwen3.8 Omni Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | anthropic | qwen |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Input Price | $2.00/M | $0.15/M |
| Output Price | $10.00/M | $0.47/M |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
| Max Output | 128,000 | 131,072 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | ✓ |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Qwen3.8 Omni Flash costs $0.27 and Claude Opus 5.5 (batch) costs $4.50, so Qwen3.8 Omni Flash is about 16.8 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 Omni Flash offers audio input and video input.
Across the 10 tasks where they differ, Qwen3.8 Omni Flash on 10 (SQL Generation, Code Completion, Code Documentation and others).
Pick Qwen3.8 Omni Flash if you need lower cost, audio input, video input or the stronger all-round task scores.
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 Opus 5.5 (batch) | Qwen: Qwen3.8 Omni Flash |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 132 | 133 |
| Code Completion | 117 | 131 |
| Code Documentation | 129 | 131 |
| Regex Writing | 117 | 119 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 132 | 133 |
| JSON Extraction | 121 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 118 | 129 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 136 | 137 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 113 | 123 |
| Blog Post Writing | 120 | 121 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →