Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct leads with 4.4% higher average benchmark score. DeepSeek-V3 offers 131.1K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct. Both models have similar pricing. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3 was introduced as a major architectural advancement, developed with 671B mixture-of-experts parameters and trained on 14.8 trillion tokens. Built to be three times faster than V2 while maintaining open-source availability, it demonstrates competitive performance against frontier closed-source models and represents a significant leap in efficient large-scale model design.
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.
8 months newer

DeepSeek-V3
DeepSeek
2024-12-25

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

DeepSeek-V3

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

DeepSeek-V3

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

DeepSeek-V3
DeepSeek

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

DeepSeek-V3

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

DeepSeek-V3

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
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