Claude Opus 4.5 vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct: side-by-side summary

Claude Opus 4.5 and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct are available through the OpenRouter API, so switching between them takes a model slug change rather than a new integration.

Claude Opus 4.5, from Anthropic, has a 200,000-token context window and is priced at $5/M tokens input, $25/M tokens output on OpenRouter.

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct, from Qwen, has a 262,144-token context window and is priced at $0.09/M tokens input, $1.10/M tokens output on OpenRouter.

Context window

• Claude Opus 4.5: 200,000 tokens
• Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct: 262,144 tokens

Price

• Claude Opus 4.5: $5/M tokens input, $25/M tokens output
• Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct: $0.09/M tokens input, $1.10/M tokens output

Provided by

• Claude Opus 4.5: Anthropic
• Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct: Qwen

• Claude Opus 4.5 model details, providers and pricing
• Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct model details, providers and pricing