Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct leads with 16.5% higher average benchmark score. Overall, Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
NVIDIA
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B was created as a compact variant optimized by NVIDIA, designed to bring Llama 3.1 capabilities to more efficient deployments. Built with NVIDIA's efficiency optimizations, it serves applications requiring strong performance with reduced resource requirements.
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.
5 months newer

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1
NVIDIA
2025-03-18

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-09-10
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1
2023-12-31
Available providers and their performance metrics

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Novita

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct