Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Qwen3.8 Max Prime
Prices checked
Claude Sonnet 4.6 takes 2 of 5 rounds against Qwen3.8 Max Prime. It is also the cheaper of the two to run, at $5.15 per million tokens against $6.
AnthropicWins 2 roundsClaude Sonnet 4.6
1M context · tool calling · reads images
$5.15/M tokensCheapest price, at Poe · $2.32 per 1,000 pages
Alibaba CloudQwen3.8 Max Prime
1M context · tool calling · reads images
$6/M tokensAlibaba Cloud's own price · $3.12 per 1,000 pages
Maker's price in (lower wins)
$3/M
$4/M
Maker's price out (lower wins)
$15/M
$12/M
Cheapest price (lower wins)
$5.15/M at Poe
none below the maker
Maker's price, blended (lower wins)
$6/M
$6/M
Cost per 1,000 pages (lower wins)
$2.32
$3.12
Context
1M tokens
1M tokens
Open weights
no
not published
Tool calling
yes
yes
Structured output
yes
yes
Reads images
yes
yes
Reasoning
yes
yes
Released
17 Feb 2026
23 Sept 2026
Providers selling it
56
7
Price we measure against
the maker's own
the maker's own
Trains on your prompts (no is better)
not published
no provider to check
Providers selling both · 6
NanoGPT$6 / $3.13
Kilo Gateway$6 / $6
Nous Portal$6 / $6
OpenRouter$6 / $6
Vercel AI Gateway$6 / $6- AI/ML API$6.35 / $6.35
Claude Sonnet 4.6, then Qwen3.8 Max Prime, per million tokens.
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Frequently asked
- Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 4.6 or Qwen3.8 Max Prime?
- Claude Sonnet 4.6, at $5.15 per million tokens against $6 for Qwen3.8 Max Prime, blended 3 in : 1 out, read on 7 Nov 2026.
- Where is each one cheapest?
- Claude Sonnet 4.6: $5.15 at Poe. Qwen3.8 Max Prime: nobody sells it below the maker's own price with a stated reason, so $6 is the number to beat.
- Can I buy both from one provider?
- Yes. 6 providers sell both: NanoGPT, Kilo Gateway, Nous Portal, OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway, AI/ML API. The cheapest of them for the two together is NanoGPT.
- Which holds more context?
- Both hold 1M tokens in one call.
Prices exclude tax, read 7 Nov 2026 from each provider's own catalog. They are per M tokens, blended 3 in : 1 out, and a page is 600 tokens in and 60 out. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.
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