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Qwen3.8 Max vs Claude Fable 5.1

Pricing per million tokens, context window, capabilities — pulled from each provider's public docs. All 2 are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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Qwen3.8 Max
alibaba/qwen3.8-max
Claude Fable 5.1
anthropic/claude-fable-5.1
Provider
Alibaba
Anthropic
Family
Qwen
Modality
text
text
Context window
1,000,000 tok
1,000,000 tok
Max output
128,000 tok
128,000 tok
Released
2026-08-03
2026-09-01
License
Open-weight
Proprietary
Input price
$2.00 /1M
$10.00 /1M
Output price
$6.00 /1M
$50.00 /1M
Tools
yes
yes
Streaming
yes
yes
Vision
yes
yes
JSON mode
yes
yes
Reasoning
yes
Prompt caching
Batch API
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Qwen3.8 Max
alibaba/qwen3.8-max
Full spec →

Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Max is a 2.4-trillion-parameter MoE flagship built for professional-grade coding and long-horizon autonomous work, capable of delivering complete, production-grade projects spanning 10+ days across legal, financial, design, and other specialized domains. Native visual understanding of images and extended video runs through the full plan-execute-verify cycle, served via DashScope's OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Use cases
ChatbotsContent generationAgentic workflows
Claude Fable 5.1
anthropic/claude-fable-5.1
Full spec →

Claude Fable 5.1 is Anthropic's next model in the Fable family, with improvements in agentic coding, long-running agentic workflows, knowledge work, front-end and visual code generation, and finance and analysis tasks. It supports adaptive thinking and a 1M token context window.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Use cases
ChatbotsContent generationAgentic workflows

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SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, all 2, one line different.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Qwen3.8 Max
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="alibaba/qwen3.8-max",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Claude Fable 5.1
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="anthropic/claude-fable-5.1",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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