Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct leads with 17.3% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3 Opus offers 268.9K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct. Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is $88.35 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3 Opus supports multimodal inputs. Claude 3 Opus is available on 3 providers. Overall, Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude 3 Opus was developed as the most capable model in the Claude 3 family, designed to set new industry benchmarks across a wide range of cognitive tasks. Built to handle complex analysis and extended tasks requiring deep reasoning, it balanced frontier intelligence with careful safety considerations, representing the flagship tier of the Claude 3 generation.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-Next 80B Instruct was developed as the instruction-tuned version of Qwen3-Next 80B, designed to combine large-scale mixture-of-experts architecture with reliable instruction-following. Built to demonstrate efficient deployment of capable models, it balances advanced performance with practical computational efficiency.
1 year newer

Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
2024-02-29

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-09-10
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude 3 Opus

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Claude 3 Opus

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3 Opus

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Claude 3 Opus

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Novita