Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct leads with 14.4% higher average benchmark score. Nova Lite offers 171.0K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct. Nova Lite is $1.35 cheaper per million tokens. Nova Lite supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Amazon
Amazon Nova Lite was developed as a lightweight multimodal model, designed to provide efficient AI capabilities for text and image understanding. Built to serve cost-sensitive applications with quick response times, it represents Amazon's entry-level offering in the Nova family.
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

Nova Lite
Amazon
2024-11-20

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

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Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Nova Lite

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

Nova Lite
Bedrock

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Nova Lite

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Nova Lite

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