Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct leads with 12.8% higher average benchmark score. Granite 3.3 8B Base supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
IBM
Granite 3.3 8B Base was developed by IBM as an enterprise-focused foundation model, designed to provide a reliable starting point for business applications. Built with 8 billion parameters and trained on curated data, it serves as a foundation for domain-specific customization in enterprise contexts.
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.
4 months newer

Granite 3.3 8B Base
IBM
2025-04-16

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-09-10
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Granite 3.3 8B Base

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Granite 3.3 8B Base
2024-04-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Granite 3.3 8B Base

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Novita

Granite 3.3 8B Base

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Granite 3.3 8B Base

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct