InferIndex · https://inferindex.dev/en/compare/anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5/vs/qwen/qwen3.8-max-prime
Claude Sonnet 4.5 costs from $6.00 per million tokens and Qwen3.8 Max Prime from $6.00 (at a 3:1 input:output mix): the cheapest price for each; prices checked on .
Verdict
At these prices, the two models cost about the same per million tokens (at a 3:1 input:output mix).
Each model's lowest blended price, per 1M tokens, across every provider we track.
| Model | Lowest blended price, $ per 1M tokens. Green background: the most favourable value of each column. | Input price of the cheapest offer, per 1M tokens | Output price of the cheapest offer, per 1M tokens | The provider's published policy says the text you send is not used to train models. We only show what is published; we can't check it ourselves. | For 2,000 input tokens and 500 output tokens per request, 1,000 requests a day, at the cheapest offer for that workload. Change the workload above. | Offers | Providers | The maximum amount of text, counted in tokens, the model can take in and write in a single request. Past this limit, the request is refused or cut. | Observation |
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| Most expensive offer · $6.60. The highest blended price among comparable offers: one price per provider (its cheapest route), standard tier, current prices only. Priority tiers and prices converted from points are not counted. | $3.00, most favourable value of the column | $15.00 | $6.00 | $405.00, most favourable value of the columnat Anthropic | 46 | 22, most favourable value of the column | 200k | ||
| Most expensive offer · $6.00. The highest blended price among comparable offers: one price per provider (its cheapest route), standard tier, current prices only. Priority tiers and prices converted from points are not counted. | $4.00 | $12.00, most favourable value of the column | $6.00 | $420.00at NanoGPT | 7 | 6 | 1M |
Green background: the most favourable value of each column.
Prices as of Oct 31, 2026, 4:52 AM UTCSame rules as the API's /cheapest route. The monthly estimate uses the cheapest offer for that workload.
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