Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct leads with 28.1% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3 Sonnet offers 268.9K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct. Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is $16.35 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs. Claude 3 Sonnet is available on 3 providers. Overall, Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude 3 Sonnet was introduced as the balanced middle tier of the Claude 3 family, offering a combination of strong capabilities and operational speed. Designed to provide an optimal tradeoff between intelligence and performance for everyday tasks, it served as a versatile solution for a wide range of enterprise and consumer applications.
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 Sonnet
Anthropic
2024-02-29

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

Claude 3 Sonnet

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

Claude 3 Sonnet

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

Claude 3 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3 Sonnet

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Claude 3 Sonnet

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Novita