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Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B (free) vs Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch)

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

Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B (free) Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch)
Vendorqwenanthropic
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score55.687.3
Input PriceFree$2.50/M
Output PriceFree$12.50/M
Context Window262,1441,000,000
Max Output235,929128,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index55.683.8

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.8 27B (free)Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch)
SQL Generation 137 142
Code Review 137 147
Code Completion 130 118
Code Refactoring 136 149
Bug Fixing 141 151
Unit Test Generation 127 134
Code Documentation 131 136
Regex Writing 125 125
CI/CD Pipelines 123 130
Frontend Component Design 128 132
Data Analysis 132 136
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 130 135
ETL Scripting 130 139
JSON Extraction 132 121
Bulk Data Labeling 130 117
OCR / Document Parsing 131 135
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 135
Long-Document Summarization 138 149
Short-Form Summarization 126 117
Blog Post Writing 125 130

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

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