Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct leads with 17.5% higher average benchmark score. Overall, Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen 2.5 14B was developed as a mid-sized instruction-tuned model, designed to balance capability and efficiency for diverse language tasks. Built with 14 billion parameters, it provides strong performance for applications requiring reliable instruction-following without the resource demands of larger models.
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.
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Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-09-10
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

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Available providers and their performance metrics

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