Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct leads with 3.1% higher average benchmark score. Qwen3 30B A3B offers 124.9K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct. Qwen3 30B A3B is $1.25 cheaper per million tokens. Qwen3 30B A3B is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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.
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 30B A3B
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 30B A3B

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

Qwen3 30B A3B

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

Qwen3 30B A3B
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Novita

Qwen3 30B A3B

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Qwen3 30B A3B

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Novita