# Claude Opus 4.8 vs Qwen3.5 Max Preview

> Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 45.3 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-opus-4-8-vs-qwen3-5-max-preview
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen3.5 Max Preview in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 78.4 to 40.1.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 60.7 | 45.3 |
| Rank | 13 | 71 |
| Context | 1M | — |
| Input $/M | $5 | — |
| Output $/M | $25 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Claude Opus 4.8: 59.9 (#12)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 44.0 (#77)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1490 | 1487 |
| DeepSWE | 59% | — |
| FrontierCode | 46.5% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1556 | — |
| SciCode | 53.5% | — |
| GSO | 47.1% | — |
| WeirdML | 82.9% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 1,564 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#11)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: —

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 48.9% | — |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 20.6% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 8.3% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 39.7% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 50.2% | — |
| PostTrainBench | 33.8% | — |
| GBAEval | 70.9% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 24% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1204 | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 5,787 | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude Opus 4.8: 64.7 (#16)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 30.8 (#84)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1482 | 1483 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 72.1% | — |
| SimpleBench | 64.8% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 88.8% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 91.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 92.5% | — |
| CritPt | 20.9% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 34% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 23.5% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 28.6% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 36% | — |
| DTBench | 94.9% | — |
| LMCA | 57.5% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 87.5% | — |
| Bench to the Future 3 | 0.14 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 158.21 | — |
| ForecastBench | 59.9 | — |

## Math

- Claude Opus 4.8: 78.4 (#13)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 40.1 (#94)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1487 | 1474 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 80% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 56.1% | — |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 91.8% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 98.3% | — |
| ProofBench | 69% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 47.2% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 31.3% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#29)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 41.8 (#107)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1502 | 1489 |
| GPQA Diamond | 91% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 53% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude Opus 4.8: 42.9 (#26)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: —

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1294 | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 14.5% | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 42.5% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1475 | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Opus 4.8: 55.2 (#33)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 56.2 (#22)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1450 | 1465 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1507 | 1534 |
| LMArena French | 1481 | 1484 |
| LMArena German | 1472 | 1487 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1440 | 1495 |
| LMArena Korean | 1432 | 1438 |
| LMArena Russian | 1474 | 1471 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1466 | 1470 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Opus 4.8: 77.4 (#24)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 77.0 (#31)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1476 | 1467 |

## Long Context

- Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#35)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 45.2 (#45)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1483 | 1476 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Opus 4.8: 72.0 (#16)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 66.0 (#41)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1461 | 1470 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1454 | 1464 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1476 | 1478 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1840 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1281 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than Qwen3.5 Max Preview?

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 45.3 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude Opus 4.8 or Qwen3.5 Max Preview better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.9 versus 44.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and Qwen3.5 Max Preview share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Max Preview has 17.