Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Opus 4 leads with 3.1% higher average benchmark score. Claude Opus 4 offers 196.9K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking. Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking is $88.35 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Opus 4 supports multimodal inputs. Claude Opus 4 is available on 4 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4 was developed as the flagship model in the Claude 4 generation, designed to push the boundaries of AI capability in complex reasoning, analysis, and multi-step problem-solving. Built to handle the most demanding enterprise tasks, it represents Anthropic's highest tier of intelligence and capability.
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.
3 months newer

Claude Opus 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22

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

Claude Opus 4

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

Claude Opus 4

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

Claude Opus 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude Opus 4

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking

Claude Opus 4

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Novita