Claude 2vsQwen3.8-Max
Claude 2 | Qwen3.8-Max | |
|---|---|---|
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | 2.4T |
Context window | 100k | 1M |
| Benchmarks | ||
Agentic coding SWE-Bench ProCan the AI fix real bugs in real software? It's handed actual problems from open-source projects and has to write code that genuinely solves them. Higher is better. | — | 67.7% |
Research reproduction PaperBenchreproducing the results of an ML research paper end to end | — | 93% |
Function synthesis HumanEval164 small Python problems: the AI is given a function's description and has to write the working function. This was the coding benchmark of the GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 era, before the field moved to fixing real bugs in real repositories. Higher is better. | 71.2% | — |
Agentic terminal coding Terminal-Bench 2.1Can the AI work in a command-line terminal — running commands and finishing technical setup tasks the way a developer would? Higher is better. | — | 86.6% |
Professional tool use JobBenchTests the AI on professional workplace tasks that require using real work tools — the kind of multi-step jobs an office worker handles. Higher is better. | — | 53.4% |
General knowledge MMLUA 57-subject multiple-choice exam — history, law, medicine, maths — that was the standard measure of how much a model knows from 2020 until roughly 2024, when frontier scores crowded into the high 80s and labs moved on to harder tests. The scores here were published years apart under different testing setups, so read them as a historical record rather than a like-for-like ranking. Higher is better. | 78.5% | — |
Grade-school math GSM8KGrade-school maths word problems that take a few steps of arithmetic to work through. It separated the models of 2022 and 2023 sharply, then saturated. One caveat on the historical numbers: OpenAI included part of the GSM8K training set in GPT-4's pre-training mix, so GPT-4's score is not a clean few-shot result. Higher is better. | 88% | — |
Agentic computer use OSWorld-VerifiedCan the AI actually operate a computer — clicking, typing, and using real apps — to finish tasks on its own? Higher is better. | — | 86.1% |
Chart reasoning CharXiv ReasoningCan the AI read and reason about complex charts and figures, not just text? Higher is better. | — | 88.4% |
Visual reasoning BabyVisionTests core visual reasoning — seeing and understanding images the way even young children can, which AIs often find surprisingly hard. Higher is better. | — | 82% |
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | Qwen |
| Release date | Jul 11 2023 | Aug 3 2026 |
| Access | Proprietary | Proprietary |
Which is better: Claude 2 or Qwen3.8-Max?
Claude 2 and Qwen3.8-Max don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Claude 2 shipped 1119 days before Qwen3.8-Max, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Context windows are 100k (Claude 2) vs 1M (Qwen3.8-Max).
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude 2 and Qwen3.8-Max don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.
Frequently asked questions
Claude 2 was released by Anthropic on Jul 11 2023.
Qwen3.8-Max was released by Qwen on Aug 3 2026.
Claude 2 has a 100k context window; Qwen3.8-Max has 1M.
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