Claude 4.8 Opus vs Qwen3.6-27B
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 Claude 4.8 OpusAnthropic |  Qwen3.6-27BAlibaba | |
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| Vendor | Anthropic | Alibaba |
| Family | Claude | Qwen |
| Release date | 2026-05-28 | 2026-04-22 |
| Context window | 1,000,000 tokens | 262,144 tokens |
| Parameters | — | 27B (dense) |
| Modality | text, vision | text, vision, video |
| License | proprietary | Apache-2.0 |
| Source | proprietary | open weights |
| Description | Anthropic's flagship hybrid-reasoning model — Opus 4.8 pushes coding and AI-agent workflows further (agentic coding 69.2% vs 64.3% on 4.7; multidisciplinary reasoning 57.9% vs 54.7%). 1M-token context, $5/$25 per MTok pricing held flat from Opus 4.7. Introduces Dynamic Workflows for Claude Code (research preview). GA on Anthropic API (`claude-opus-4-8`), AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex, Microsoft Foundry, and GitHub Copilot. | Alibaba's first dense open-weight in the 3.6 family. Strong agentic-coding scores (77.2 SWE-bench Verified, matching Claude 4.5 Opus on Terminal-Bench 2.0). Supports 201 languages and multimodal text/image/video input. |
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| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.9% |
| HumanEval | — | 91.5% |
| Aider | — | 70.2% |
| MMMU | — | 70.3% |
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