Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5 (batch) vs Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max Prime

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Claude Sonnet 5.5 (batch) costs $2.25 and Qwen3.8 Max Prime costs $7.00, so Claude Sonnet 5.5 (batch) is about 3.1 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 Sonnet 5.5 (batch) scores higher on 20 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Pick Claude Sonnet 5.5 (batch) 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.