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.
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.
Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic's model for complex agentic coding and enterprise work, delivering intelligence close to Claude Fable 5 at half the price. It uses adaptive thinking to calibrate reasoning per task and supports a one million token context window at standard pricing. Unlike Fable 5, Opus 5 has no data retention requirements for general access.
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 Opus 5
client.chat.completions.create(
model="anthropic/claude-opus-5",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)