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Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Qwen3.8 Max

Compare Claude 3.7 Sonnet from Anthropic and Qwen3.8 Max from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic · text, image → text

Support for the thinking parameter through the original Claude SDK.

Input$3.3 /M
Output$16.5 /M
Qwen logo
Qwen3.8 Max
Qwen · text, image, video → text

Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen's next-generation flagship large language model, featuring a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 2.4 trillion parameters. It achieves another breakthrough in encoding depth, enabling it to handle more complex engineering-grade projects and long-term autonomous development; collaborative agent capabilities are significantly enhanced, performing more confidently in multi-tool orchestration and end-to-end delivery; visual understanding is comprehensively improved, with more sensitive and accurate chart reasoning, document parsing, and multimodal perception. Continuing the 1-million-context window, reasoning modes, and a complete tool ecosystem, it continues to evolve at a higher level of intelligence.

Input$1.69 /M
Output$5.07 /M
Cache read$0.169 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Qwen3.8 Max
Input /M
$3.3
$1.69
Output /M
$16.5
$5.07
Cache read /M
-
$0.169
Context length
200,000
1,000,000
Max output
128,000
131,072
Time to First Token
0.6 s
64.0 s
Throughput
57.3 tok/s
30.0 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
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August 3, 2026

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
claude-3-7-sonnetqwen3.8-max
13401380142014601500
Overall
13711482
Coding
14301430
Math
13621362
Hard prompts
13981398
Instruction following
13841384
Multi-turn
13961396
Creative writing
13761376
Longer query
14101410
Chinese
13811381
English
13851385
Vision
claude-3-7-sonnetqwen3.8-max
1140120012601320
Overall
11751301
OCR
11831183
Diagram
11891189
Homework
12241224

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Qwen3.8 Max
$177 /mo
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
$446 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Qwen3.8 Max?

Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/M output tokens; Claude 3.7 Sonnet: $16.5/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

Which responds faster?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 0.6s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet accepts 200,000 and Qwen3.8 Max accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet at 57.3 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max at 30.0 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Qwen3.8 Max accepts text, image and video input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.

Can I call Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Qwen3.8 Max with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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