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| Attribute | Qwen3.8 27Bqwen3.8-27b | Claude Sonnet 5.5claude-sonnet-5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Input | $0.45 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Output | $3.20 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $0.45 / 1M | $2.50 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $0.45 / 1M | $4.00 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $0.45 / 1M | $0.10 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | ||
| Max context | 262K | 1M |
| Max output | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | ||
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | Yes |
| Catalogue | ||
| Provider | Alibaba | Anthropic |
| Category | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — |
| Description | ||
| Summary | Qwen3.8 27B is an open-weight dense vision-language model from Qwen, designed for coding, professional knowledge work, research, and multimodal interaction. It combines strong text and visual understanding with capabilities optimized for sustained, real-world agentic tasks. The model supports flexible thinking modes that can be enabled for deeper reasoning or disabled for faster execution, making it well suited for long-running agents, multimodal workflows, coding assistants, and cost-conscious self-hosted deployments. | Claude Sonnet 5.5 is Anthropic's Sonnet-class model for well-scoped everyday work, serving as a direct upgrade to Sonnet 5. It excels at feature development, bug fixing, and creating polished documents, presentations, and spreadsheets, while offering clearer writing and communication than its predecessor. |