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Grok-3 Mini vs Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok-3 Mini leads with 4.9% higher average benchmark score. Grok-3 Mini offers 4.9K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking. Grok-3 Mini is $0.85 cheaper per million tokens. Grok-3 Mini supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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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.
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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-Next 80B Thinking was created as a reasoning-enhanced variant, designed to incorporate extended analytical capabilities into the Qwen3-Next architecture. Built to handle complex problem-solving with mixture-of-experts efficiency, it serves applications requiring both deep reasoning and computational practicality.
6 months newer
Grok-3 Mini
xAI
2025-02-17
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-09-10
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Pricing Comparison
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Grok-3 Mini
Input:$0.30
Output:$0.50($0.85 cheaper)
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Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Input:$0.15
Output:$1.50
Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks
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Grok-3 Mini
Average Score:87.4%(+4.9%)
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Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Average Score:82.5%
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Knowledge Cutoff
Training data recency comparison
Grok-3 Mini
2024-11-17
More recent knowledge cutoff means awareness of newer technologies and frameworks
Provider Availability & Performance
Available providers and their performance metrics
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Grok-3 Mini
1 providers
xAI
Throughput: 100 tok/s
Latency: 0.7ms
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Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
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Grok-3 Mini
Avg Score:87.4%(+4.9%)
Providers:1
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Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Avg Score:82.5%
Providers:1