Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct leads with 9.9% higher average benchmark score. Llama 3.3 70B Instruct offers 124.9K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct. Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is $1.25 cheaper per million tokens. Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is available on 9 providers. Overall, Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Meta
Llama 3.3 70B was introduced with refinements to the Llama 3 architecture, designed to incorporate improvements in instruction-following and task performance. Built to continue the evolution of Meta's 70B tier, it provides enhanced quality while maintaining the deployment characteristics valued by the open-source community.
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.
9 months newer

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Meta
2024-12-06

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-09-10
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Bedrock
Cerebras
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Groq

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Hyperbolic
Lambda
Sambanova
Together

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Novita