Claude Opus 4.8 vs Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15
Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 costs 16.0x less per output token than Claude Opus 4.8 ($1.56 vs $25.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 8 benchmarks have a result for both.
vs boards won of 8 shared
Claude Opus 4.8 or Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15: which to pick
Only Claude Opus 4.8 has a coding score, 65.0 on the Vibe Coding Index; Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 for output tokens 16.0x cheaper ($1.56 vs $25.00 per million).
Model AClaude Opus 4.8Anthropic65.0/1006 independent benchmarks$2.17 per solved taskModel BQwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15QwenNot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved task
- Shared results
- 8
- Claude Opus 4.8 only
- 128
- Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 only
- 0
- Like-for-like categories
- 1 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.8 has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.8 has a AA Intelligence Index result, 41.8.
Directional only
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.8 has a AA Agentic Index result, 41.9.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.8 has a GPQA Diamond result, 92.4%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.8 has a MMLU Pro result, 89.6%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Claude Opus 4.8
Claude Opus 4.8 leads, 1258 against 1187.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
No call
Both take 1M tokens.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15
Claude Opus 4.8 $0.018, Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 $0.0010 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.8 has the number, $2.17.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Claude Opus 4.8 65.0 from 6 benchmarks, Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Web design, 13.7 points apart on average over 8 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- Design Arena: ASCII art: Claude Opus 4.8 1277 against Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 1094, 22.9 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Claude Opus 4.8 $25.00 against Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 $1.56 per million output tokens, 16.0x apart.
- Context window
- Both take 1M tokens.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Claude Opus 4.8 | Bars | Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web design | 8 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 8 | 0 |
CodingDirectional onlySix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index24 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | 77.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1556 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| AA Coding Index | 74.3 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 87.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 88.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 23.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 82.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 47.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 1.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 71.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| SkillsBench (Vals AI) | 59.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| SciCode | 54.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 58.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| FrontierCode | 46.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| GSO-Bench | 47.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| WeirdML | 82.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1490 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1488 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1557 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1543 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| SciCode | 12.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| SWE Atlas: Codebase QnA | 57.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| SWE Atlas: Refactoring | 46.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| SWE Atlas: Test Writing | 49.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 19 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 41.8 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 159.0 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index28 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 41.9 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | 1233 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | 1249 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | 1222 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | 1231 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | 1231 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building games | 1238 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: HTML slides | 1160 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | 1201 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: spreadsheets | 1314 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LiveBench research | 81.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LiveBench browser | 96.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | 48.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 53.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 30.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 43.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 69.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 4.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Time Horizon Index (Vals AI) | 11.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 94.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| APEX-Agents | 48.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Remote Labor Index | 8.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 20.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| DeepResearch Bench | 50.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| PostTrainBench | 33.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $5,787 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Search | 1204 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| MCP Atlas | 82.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index18 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 92.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LiveBench reasoning | 89.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 86.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 92.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 48.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 91.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| ARC-AGI | 92.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 72.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| SimpleBench | 64.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Chess puzzles | 52.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 36.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| EBR-bench | 28.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1482 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1503 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1487 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1315 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1337 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 88.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index7 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 98.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 80.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 56.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| ProofBench | 69.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1486 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1497 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| MathArena | 39.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index12 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 89.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 83.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 66.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 75.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 69.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 53.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 53.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1477 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1464 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1477 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1458 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| FACTS Benchmark Suite | 53.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index80
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1258 | 1187 | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1255 | 1175 | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1264 | 1105 | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1240 | 1135 | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1222 | 1118 | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1255 | 1166 | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1194 | 1107 | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1277 | 1094 | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| LiveBench design | 78.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index36 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | 66.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 68.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 54.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 85.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | 70.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| IFBench | 62.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 77.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| DTBench | 94.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMCA | 57.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 87.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Furniture assembly | 42.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1461 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1476 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1454 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Vision | 1294 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1468 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1450 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1506 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1472 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1442 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1431 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1481 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1465 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1474 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1459 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1476 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1483 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1461 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1440 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1293 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1346 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1303 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1282 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1301 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Document | 1475 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1281 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Claude Opus 4.8$0.018Fits in one request
Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15$0.0010Fits in one request
Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Claude Opus 4.8$0.325Fits in one request
Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15$0.018Fits in one request
Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Claude Opus 4.8$1.25Fits in one request
Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15$0.068Fits in one request
Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 | Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Anthropic | Qwen |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | May 27, 2026 | February 16, 2026 |
| Context window | 1M | 1M |
| Input $/Mtok | $5.00 | $0.26 |
| Output $/Mtok | $25.00 | $1.56 |
| Coding index | 65.0 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 6 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | $2.17 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 for coding?
Only Claude Opus 4.8 has a coding score, 65.0 on the Vibe Coding Index; Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 for output tokens 16.0x cheaper ($1.56 vs $25.00 per million).
Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.8 or Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15?
Claude Opus 4.8 costs $5.00 per million input tokens and $25.00 per million output tokens; Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 costs $0.26 and $1.56. Cost per solved task is known for Claude Opus 4.8 only.
Which has the bigger context window, Claude Opus 4.8 or Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15?
Neither: both take 1M tokens.
How many benchmarks is the Claude Opus 4.8 vs Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 comparison based on?
8 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Claude Opus 4.8's coding index rests on 6 independent benchmarks and Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.