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Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct vs Claude Opus 4.8

Compare Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct from Qwen and Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct
Qwen · text, image, video → text

Qwen2.5-VL is a visual language model from the Qwen2.5 series, equipped with strong visual understanding and reasoning capabilities. It can recognize objects, analyze text and charts, understand key events in long videos, and accurately locate targets within images. The model supports structured output, making it suitable for data such as invoices and forms, and performs excellently in multiple benchmark tests.

Input$0.5 /M
Output$0.5 /M
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Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic · text, image, pdf → text

Claude Opus 4.5 is Anthropic’s latest frontier reasoning model, optimized for complex engineering, agentic workflows, and long-horizon computer use. It features strong multimodal capabilities, improved resistance to prompt injection, and a new Verbosity parameter to control token efficiency. With advanced tool use, extended context, and multi-agent support, Opus 4.5 excels in autonomous research, debugging, planning, and spreadsheet/browser operations.

Input$5 /M
Output$25 /M
Cache read$0.5 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct
Claude Opus 4.8
Input /M
$0.5
$5
Output /M
$0.5
$25
Cache read /M
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$0.5
Context length
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1,000,000
Max output
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128,000
Time to First Token
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Throughput
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Modalities
textimagevideo
textimagepdf
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
Released
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May 28, 2026

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct
$37.50 /mo
Claude Opus 4.8
$675 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct, Claude Opus 4.8?

Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct: $0.5/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct accepts text, image and video input; Claude Opus 4.8 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct and Claude Opus 4.8 with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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