Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Claude 3.7 Sonnet offers 196.9K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking. Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking is $16.35 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3.7 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet is available on 4 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude 3.7 Sonnet represents Anthropic's first hybrid reasoning model, capable of producing near-instant responses or extended step-by-step thinking that is visible to users. Developed with particularly strong improvements in coding and front-end web development, it allows users to control thinking budgets and balances real-world task performance with reasoning capabilities for enterprise applications.
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.
6 months newer

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
2025-02-24

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

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

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

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Novita