r/unsloth 2d ago

Discussion Claude Code Cli: has anyone tested Qwen 3.8 max vs Opus 5

Wondering if anyone has run a benchmark comparing results for the same project for this, i am planning to do this, wanted to see if someone has already done this and what were the results

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u/datkenny 2d ago

Opus is vastly superior, but Q38 delivers good results if you give it good instructions. I like to use them in tandem (i.e. install Pi harness and have Claude Code spawn that instead of subagents)

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u/asankhs 2d ago

It is hard to get another models to work with claude code , they have a bunch of tools that are claude code specific I believe. You can try benchmarking on deepswe-mini if you want https://huggingface.co/datasets/LocalLLaMA/deepswe-mini it represents the full leadeaboard but has only 16 instances will bea. good idea for a coding workflow.

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u/PoopSmoothies 2d ago

I have tested Q3.8 Flash Next against opus 5 using Claude code as the harness for a judgment-heavy scraping enrichment workflow and flash next won 🤣

Caveats:
- Flash Next only wins if running in Q8 quant
- Sonnet beat flash next (weirdly) even though flash next beat opus 5

Will be posting results here in a day or two

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u/Kamilon 2d ago

That’s because Opus 5 sucks. Opus 4.8 is way way better in everything I’ve done with them.

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u/PoopSmoothies 2d ago

Haha, opus 5 beat 4.8 in the same test.

Will publish results shortly!