Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct leads with 10.2% higher average benchmark score. Qwen3 235B A22B offers 124.9K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct. Qwen3 235B A22B is $1.45 cheaper per million tokens. Qwen3 235B A22B is available on 4 providers. Overall, Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 235B was developed as a large-scale model with 235 billion total parameters using a mixture-of-experts architecture activating 22 billion parameters. Built to provide frontier capabilities with computational efficiency through sparse activation, it represents Qwen's advancement into very large-scale model development.
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.
4 months newer

Qwen3 235B A22B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29

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

Qwen3 235B A22B

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 7 common benchmarks

Qwen3 235B A22B

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

Qwen3 235B A22B
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Novita
Together

Qwen3 235B A22B

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Qwen3 235B A22B

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Novita