# Qwen3.8 27B vs Claude Sonnet 4.6 - AI Model Comparison

- Page: https://opencode.ai/data/compare/alibaba/qwen3-8-27b/anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6
- Updated: 2026-10-22T20:28:48.000Z

|  | Qwen3.8 27B | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lab | Alibaba | Anthropic |
| Context window | 262K | 1M |
| Max output | 33K | 64K |
| Input modalities | text, image, video | text, image, pdf |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Open weights | Yes | No |
| Release date | 2026-08-14 | 2026-02-17 |
| Input price per 1M tokens | $0.48 | $3.00 |
| Output price per 1M tokens | $3.39 | $15.00 |
| Cached input price per 1M tokens | - | $0.30 |
| OpenCode tokens: past 2 months | 731K | 3.1M |
| Share of all tokens | 0% | 0% |
| Rank by tokens last week | #51 | #49 |
| Unique users | 3 | 1 |
| Weekly retention | - | - |

Model pages: [Qwen3.8 27B](https://opencode.ai/data/alibaba/qwen3-8-27b.md), [Claude Sonnet 4.6](https://opencode.ai/data/anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6.md)

## Methodology

- Updates: Aggregated every hour. Days and weeks use UTC.
- Tokens: Input, output, reasoning, and cached tokens for each request.
- Users and sessions: Approximate counts of distinct users and OpenCode sessions.
- Cost: Session cost is the average cost per OpenCode session. Token prices are list prices from the OpenCode model catalog.
- Retention: The share of a model's users in one week who use it again the next week.
- Citation: Cite OpenCode Data (opencode.ai/data) with the update time shown at the top of the page.