Comparing 2 models

Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Qwen3.8 27B

Facts first, then task-specific rankings. A highlighted cell is better only for that row, not universally.

metric
Model 1Claude Sonnet 4.5
Model 2Qwen3.8 27B
Best for
Tool & Function Calling (#2)
RAG & Long Context (#1)
Provider
anthropic
qwen
Context
1MBest
1MBest
Input / 1M
$3
$0.42Best
Output / 1M
$15
$3Best
Tool use
yesBest
yesBest
Vision
yesBest
yesBest
Reasoning
yesBest
yesBest
Open-weight
yesBest
Released
Jan 15, 2025
Aug 14, 2026