Qwen 3.8 Max already competes with Claude and GPT in the LLM Arena in fields such as vision (2nd), code-related tasks (4th), and text (5th).
To bolster the launch, Anthropic has announced that it will double Cowork usage credits through August 5, 2026.
Sonnet 5 achieves performance similar to Opus 4.8 at a lower cost, but it is not optimized for cybersecurity tasks.