Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok-3 Mini supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
xAI
Grok 3 Mini was developed as an efficient version of Grok 3, designed to bring next-generation capabilities to resource-conscious deployments. Built to provide strong performance with practical efficiency, it extends Grok 3's innovations to broader application scenarios.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-Next 80B Base was introduced as an experimental base model with 80 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters. Built to explore advanced mixture-of-experts architectures, it provides a foundation for fine-tuning and research into efficient large-scale model design.
6 months newer

Grok-3 Mini
xAI
2025-02-17

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-09-10
Context window and performance specifications
Grok-3 Mini
2024-11-17
Available providers and their performance metrics

Grok-3 Mini
xAI

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Grok-3 Mini

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Grok-3 Mini

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base