Grok-3 Mini vs Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Grok-3 Mini

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.

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

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.