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Claude Sonnet 4 vs Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Claude Sonnet 4 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 Sonnet 4 supports multimodal inputs. Claude Sonnet 4 is available on 4 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4 was created as the balanced offering in the Claude 4 family, designed to provide strong intelligence with practical speed and cost efficiency. Built to serve as a versatile workhorse for diverse applications, it balances advanced capabilities with operational considerations for everyday enterprise and consumer use.
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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.
3 months newer
Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22
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 Sonnet 4
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 Sonnet 4
Average Score:71.6%(+0.7%)
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Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Average Score:70.9%
Provider Availability & Performance
Available providers and their performance metrics
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Claude Sonnet 4
4 providers
Anthropic
Throughput: 42 tok/s
Latency: 0.4ms
Bedrock
Throughput: 101 tok/s
Latency: 0.5ms
Throughput: 42 tok/s
Latency: 0.4ms
ZeroEval
Throughput: 42 tok/s
Latency: 0.4ms
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Claude Sonnet 4
Avg Score:71.6%(+0.7%)
Providers:4
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Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Avg Score:70.9%
Providers:1