Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking leads with 11.3% higher average benchmark score. Qwen3 30B A3B offers 124.9K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking. Qwen3 30B A3B is $1.25 cheaper per million tokens. Qwen3 30B A3B is available on 3 providers. Overall, Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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 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.
4 months newer

Qwen3 30B A3B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29

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

Qwen3 30B A3B

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

Qwen3 30B A3B

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

Qwen3 30B A3B
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Novita

Qwen3 30B A3B

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking

Qwen3 30B A3B

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Novita