Qwen 3.8-Max and Claude Opus 5 show why raw benchmark scores don't predict the bill
Alibaba released Qwen 3.8-Max, marketed as second only to Claude Fable 5, but an independent harness found the opposite on coding-agent tasks. The analysis argues raw benchmark scores don't predict real-world cost.
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