Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct leads with 12.8% higher average benchmark score. Granite 3.3 8B Instruct supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
IBM
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct was created as the instruction-tuned version of the Granite base model, designed to follow instructions reliably in enterprise settings. Built to serve business applications requiring dependable language understanding, it provides IBM's accessible interface for enterprise AI.
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.
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Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
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 Instruct

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

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Novita

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

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Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

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