Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking leads with 34.2% higher average benchmark score. Overall, Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B was created as an efficient coding-specialized model, designed to bring strong programming capabilities to resource-conscious deployments. Built with 7 billion parameters optimized for code understanding and generation, it provides developers with a lightweight option for code-related tasks.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-Next 80B Thinking was created as a reasoning-enhanced variant, designed to incorporate extended analytical capabilities into the Qwen3-Next architecture. Built to handle complex problem-solving with mixture-of-experts efficiency, it serves applications requiring both deep reasoning and computational practicality.
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2025-09-10
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

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Available providers and their performance metrics

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