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Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking leads with 4.6% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3.5 Sonnet offers 268.9K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking. Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking is $16.35 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3.5 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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Anthropic
This upgraded version of Claude 3.5 Sonnet was released with significant improvements in coding and agentic tool use. Built to deliver enhanced performance in software engineering tasks, it brought substantial gains in reasoning and problem-solving while introducing the groundbreaking computer use capability in public beta, allowing it to interact with computer interfaces like a human.
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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-Next 80B Thinking was created as a reasoning-enhanced variant, designed to incorporate extended analytical capabilities into the Qwen3-Next architecture. Built to handle complex problem-solving with mixture-of-experts efficiency, it serves applications requiring both deep reasoning and computational practicality.
10 months newer
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
2024-10-22
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-09-10
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Pricing Comparison
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Input:$3.00
Output:$15.00
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Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Input:$0.15
Output:$1.50($16.35 cheaper)
Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks
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Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Average Score:65.0%
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Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Average Score:69.6%(+4.6%)
Provider Availability & Performance
Available providers and their performance metrics
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Claude 3.5 Sonnet
3 providers
Anthropic
Throughput: 100 tok/s
Latency: 0.5ms
Bedrock
Throughput: 101 tok/s
Latency: 0.5ms
Throughput: 42 tok/s
Latency: 0.4ms
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Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Avg Score:65.0%
Providers:3
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Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Avg Score:69.6%(+4.6%)
Providers:1