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Anthropic vs Alibaba

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Anthropic and Alibaba side by side on everything we track. Each lab’s own page has the full detail.

Readout

Both labs at a glance. Every figure links to the lab’s page, which cites its source.

Each lab’s flagship price, disclosed revenue, demand share, open roles, incidents, and newest alert
Lab Flagship $/Mtok SEC revenue Demand share Open roles Incidents 30d Newest alert
Anthropic Tear sheet $4.00 / $20.00in / out · claude-opus-5-5$33.2Bnine months to 2026-09-306.0%−0.8 ppof all OpenRouter tokens, 7 days676+31 in 30d32 physical infrastructure11vs 13none openAnthropic adds five roles and removes six across…
Alibaba Tear sheet $2.00 / $6.00in / out · qwen3.8-maxNone filed1.0%+0.2 ppof all OpenRouter tokens, 7 daysNo public feedNo public feednone

API prices

$ per million tokens, like for like on each vendor’s own recommendation.

Like-for-like API pricing in dollars per million tokens, by lab and class
Lab Flagship the vendor’s own “start here” model for hard workBalanced the vendor’s stated intelligence-for-cost tradeoffEconomy the vendor’s model for cost-sensitive, high-volume work
Anthropic
claude-opus-5-5

$4.00 in $20.00 out

platform.claude.com
claude-sonnet-5-5

$2.00 in $10.00 out0% in

platform.claude.com
claude-haiku-5-5

$0.10 in $0.50 out

platform.claude.com
Alibaba
qwen3.8-max

$2.00 in $6.00 out

alibabacloud.com
qwen3.7-plus

$0.40 in $1.60 out

alibabacloud.com
qwen3.8-flash

$0.15 in $0.47 out

alibabacloud.com

Each lab in full: Anthropic, Alibaba.

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