Claude Opus 5.5vsQwen3.8 Max

SI Score, benchmarks, price and context compared, with every number sourced.

80.9
SI Score
#1 of 125 ranked models

Anthropic 100% confidence 100 percent, Full confidence

77.4
SI Score
#3 of 125 ranked models

Alibaba / Qwen 85% confidence 85 percent, High confidence

Pillar by pillar

Claude Opus 5.5Qwen3.8 Max
89.0 Reasoning30% of score 82.6
93.3 Math15% of score 78.7
69.6 Coding40% of score 71.7
82.8 Preference15% of score 80.5

The basics

AttributeClaude Opus 5.5Qwen3.8 Max
Input price, per 1M tokens $4.00Anthropic models & pricingOfficial Claude API; lowest short-context on-demand tier; batch/cache/long-context rates excluded Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
Open source ↗ 		$1.65Alibaba Model Studio pricingOfficial Alibaba Model Studio Global USD on-demand API; 0<Token≤1M; Non-Thinking and Thinking modes. Output uses non-thinking rate when both modes are available; thinking-only products use their thinking rate. Cache, Batch, free quotas and regional rates excluded Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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Output price, per 1M tokens $20.00Anthropic models & pricingOfficial Claude API; lowest short-context on-demand tier; batch/cache/long-context rates excluded Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
Open source ↗ 		$4.95Alibaba Model Studio pricingOfficial Alibaba Model Studio Global USD on-demand API; 0<Token≤1M; Non-Thinking and Thinking modes. Output uses non-thinking rate when both modes are available; thinking-only products use their thinking rate. Cache, Batch, free quotas and regional rates excluded Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
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Context window 1MAnthropic models & pricingOfficial Claude API; lowest short-context on-demand tier; batch/cache/long-context rates excluded Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
Open source ↗ 		1Mmodels.devPublished source fact Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · MIT
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Released Sep 22, 2026Anthropic models & pricingOfficial Claude API; lowest short-context on-demand tier; batch/cache/long-context rates excluded Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation
Open source ↗ 		Aug 3, 2026models.devPublished source fact Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · MIT
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Weights Closed Closed

Highlighted values are the lower price or the larger context window.

Shared benchmarks

22 in common. Best result ahead: Claude Opus 5.5 on 16, Qwen3.8 Max on 5

Each side shows its best published result. Results can come from different settings or harnesses, so open a row to compare like with like before reading much into a small gap.

FrontierMath Tier 4 (v2) 95% 46.3%

Claude Opus 5.5

  • max effort95%Epoch AI BenchmarkingEpoch-owned evaluation mean score; scores only, no benchmark questions [variant] maxPublished Sep 22, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY
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Qwen3.8 Max

  • xhigh effort46.3%Epoch AI BenchmarkingEpoch-owned evaluation mean score; scores only, no benchmark questions [variant] xhighPublished Aug 4, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY
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About FrontierMath Tier 4 (v2)
FrontierMath Tiers 1–3 (v2) 91.2% 74.7%

Claude Opus 5.5

  • max effort91.2%Epoch AI BenchmarkingEpoch-owned evaluation mean score; scores only, no benchmark questions [variant] maxPublished Sep 22, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY
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Qwen3.8 Max

  • xhigh effort74.7%Epoch AI BenchmarkingEpoch-owned evaluation mean score; scores only, no benchmark questions [variant] xhighPublished Aug 4, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY
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About FrontierMath Tiers 1–3 (v2)
GPQA Diamond 90.6% 92.7%

Claude Opus 5.5

  • max effort90.6%Epoch AI BenchmarkingEpoch-owned evaluation mean score; scores only, no benchmark questions [variant] maxPublished Sep 22, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY
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Qwen3.8 Max

  • xhigh effort92.7%Epoch AI BenchmarkingEpoch-owned evaluation mean score; scores only, no benchmark questions [variant] xhighPublished Aug 4, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY
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  • Setting 292.6%Official model cards via models.devLab-reported; metric score; transcribed by MIT models.dev catalog; not independently evaluated [variant] Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; MIT transcription
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About GPQA Diamond
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) 67.7% 56.2%

Claude Opus 5.5

  • max effort67.7%Official model cards via models.devLab-reported; metric score; transcribed by MIT models.dev catalog; not independently evaluated [variant] max effort; with tools; production safeguards with fallbackPublished Sep 22, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; MIT transcription
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Qwen3.8 Max

  • Published result56.2%Official model cards via models.devLab-reported; metric score; transcribed by MIT models.dev catalog; not independently evaluated [variant] with tools Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; MIT transcription
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About Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
LiveBench Coding: code completion 87.0% 73.9%

Claude Opus 5.5

  • Published result87.0%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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Qwen3.8 Max

  • Published result73.9%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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About LiveBench Coding: code completion
LiveBench Coding: code generation 91.5% 71.8%

Claude Opus 5.5

  • Published result91.5%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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Qwen3.8 Max

  • Published result71.8%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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About LiveBench Coding: code generation
LiveBench Coding: JavaScript 72.7% 77.3%

Claude Opus 5.5

  • Published result72.7%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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Qwen3.8 Max

  • Published result77.3%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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About LiveBench Coding: JavaScript
LiveBench Coding: Python 70% 60%

Claude Opus 5.5

  • Published result70%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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Qwen3.8 Max

  • Published result60%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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About LiveBench Coding: Python
LiveBench Coding: TypeScript 53.3% 56.7%

Claude Opus 5.5

  • Published result53.3%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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Qwen3.8 Max

  • Published result56.7%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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About LiveBench Coding: TypeScript
LiveBench Math: AMPS Hard 99% 98%

Claude Opus 5.5

  • Published result99%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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Qwen3.8 Max

  • Published result98%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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About LiveBench Math: AMPS Hard
LiveBench Math: competition math 97.1% 95.1%

Claude Opus 5.5

  • Published result97.1%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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Qwen3.8 Max

  • Published result95.1%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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About LiveBench Math: competition math
LiveBench Math: integrals 99% 81%

Claude Opus 5.5

  • Published result99%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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Qwen3.8 Max

  • Published result81%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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About LiveBench Math: integrals
LiveBench Math: olympiad 92.2% 91.2%

Claude Opus 5.5

  • Published result92.2%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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Qwen3.8 Max

  • Published result91.2%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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About LiveBench Math: olympiad
LiveBench Math: simplify 63% 67.3%

Claude Opus 5.5

  • Published result63%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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Qwen3.8 Max

  • Published result67.3%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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About LiveBench Math: simplify
LiveBench Reasoning: connections 99.3% 94.5%

Claude Opus 5.5

  • Published result99.3%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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Qwen3.8 Max

  • Published result94.5%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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About LiveBench Reasoning: connections
LiveBench Reasoning: consecutive events 90.4% 87.1%

Claude Opus 5.5

  • Published result90.4%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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Qwen3.8 Max

  • Published result87.1%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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About LiveBench Reasoning: consecutive events
LiveBench Reasoning: logic with navigation 80% 74%

Claude Opus 5.5

  • Published result80%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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Qwen3.8 Max

  • Published result74%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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About LiveBench Reasoning: logic with navigation
LiveBench Reasoning: spatial 98% 100%

Claude Opus 5.5

  • Published result98%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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Qwen3.8 Max

  • Published result100%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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About LiveBench Reasoning: spatial
LiveBench Reasoning: theory of mind 84.6% 78.8%

Claude Opus 5.5

  • Published result84.6%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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Qwen3.8 Max

  • Published result78.8%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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About LiveBench Reasoning: theory of mind
LiveBench Reasoning: zebra puzzles 100% 100%

Claude Opus 5.5

  • Published result100%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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Qwen3.8 Max

  • Published result100%LiveBenchLiveBench subtask result; dataset edition 2026_06_25; publication time is HTTP Last-Modified of the score CSV, not the dataset edition or individual evaluation date [variant] 2026_06_25Published Oct 7, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · factual citation; Apache-2.0 code
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About LiveBench Reasoning: zebra puzzles
LMArena Text 1514.8 elo 1483.3 elo

Claude Opus 5.5

  • Published result1514.8 eloLMArena / ArenaPublished source fact [variant] text / overallPublished Oct 8, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY-4.0
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Qwen3.8 Max

  • Published result1483.3 eloLMArena / ArenaPublished source fact [variant] text / overallPublished Oct 8, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY-4.0
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About LMArena Text
OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025 100% 99.4%

Claude Opus 5.5

  • max effort100%Epoch AI BenchmarkingEpoch-owned evaluation mean score; scores only, no benchmark questions [variant] maxPublished Sep 22, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY
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Qwen3.8 Max

  • xhigh effort99.4%Epoch AI BenchmarkingEpoch-owned evaluation mean score; scores only, no benchmark questions [variant] xhighPublished Aug 4, 2026 Retrieved Oct 9, 2026 · CC-BY
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About OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025

Which should you choose?

  • For reasoning, Claude Opus 5.5 leads by 6.3 points.
  • For math, Claude Opus 5.5 leads by 14.6 points.
  • Qwen3.8 Max costs less per input token ($1.65 vs $4.00 per 1M).
  • Confidence is 100% for Claude Opus 5.5 and 85% for Qwen3.8 Max; sources still to report can move either score.

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