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Claude Opus 4.5 vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.
Winner summary
Claude Opus 4.5 wins on 1/1 benchmarks
Claude Opus 4.5 wins 1 of 1 shared benchmarks. Leads in arena.
Category leads
arena·Claude Opus 4.5
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Claude Opus 4.5
#197 by perf·#5 by attention
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
#47 by perf·#1 by attention
Best value
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
33.6x better value than Claude Opus 4.5
Claude Opus 4.5
2.7 pts/$
$15.00/M
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
91.3 pts/$
$0.67/M
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Head to head
1 benchmark · 2 models
Claude Opus 4.5Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +100.4
Claude Opus 4.5
1469.8
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
1369.3
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking |
|---|---|---|
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall | 1469.8 | 1369.3 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $5.00 | $25.00 | 200K tokens (~100 books) | $100.00 | |
| $0.15 | $1.20 | 262K tokens (~131 books) | $4.13 |