Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Meta
Llama 3.2 3B was created as an ultra-compact open-source model, designed to enable on-device and edge deployment scenarios. Built with just 3 billion parameters while retaining instruction-following abilities, it brings Meta's language technology to mobile devices, IoT applications, and resource-constrained environments.
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.
11 months newer

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Meta
2024-09-25

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

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
DeepInfra

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base