Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct offers 114.7K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-V2.5. DeepSeek-V2.5 is $1.23 cheaper per million tokens. DeepSeek-V2.5 is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V2.5 was developed as an enhanced iteration of the DeepSeek-V2 architecture, designed to incorporate improvements in model quality and efficiency. Built to advance the DeepSeek foundation model series, it provides refined capabilities for general-purpose language understanding and generation tasks.
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

DeepSeek-V2.5
DeepSeek
2024-05-08

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

DeepSeek-V2.5

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

DeepSeek-V2.5
DeepInfra
DeepSeek
Hyperbolic

DeepSeek-V2.5

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

DeepSeek-V2.5

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Novita