Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Gemma 3 12B offers 131.1K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct. Gemma 3 12B is $1.50 cheaper per million tokens. Gemma 3 12B supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Gemma 3 12B is a multimodal language model developed by Google. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 62.5% across 26 benchmarks. It excels particularly in GSM8k (94.4%), IFEval (88.9%), DocVQA (87.1%). It supports a 262K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 1 API provider. As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. It's licensed for commercial use, making it suitable for enterprise applications. Released in 2025, it represents Google's latest advancement in AI technology.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is a language model developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 67.0% across 24 benchmarks. It excels particularly in MMLU-Redux (90.9%), MultiPL-E (87.8%), IFEval (87.6%). It supports a 131K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 1 API provider. It's licensed for commercial use, making it suitable for enterprise applications. Released in 2025, it represents Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team's latest advancement in AI technology.
6 months newer
Gemma 3 12B
2025-03-12
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-09-10
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Gemma 3 12B
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 47 common benchmarks
Gemma 3 12B
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics
Gemma 3 12B
DeepInfra
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Gemma 3 12B
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Gemma 3 12B
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Novita