Qwen3 30B A3B vs Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Qwen3 30B A3B

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Qwen3 30B was created with a mixture-of-experts architecture featuring 30 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters. Built to provide strong capabilities with efficient inference through sparse activation, it balances performance with practical computational requirements.

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Qwen3-Next 80B Base was introduced as an experimental base model with 80 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters. Built to explore advanced mixture-of-experts architectures, it provides a foundation for fine-tuning and research into efficient large-scale model design.