Qwen3 Coder Next vs UI-TARS-72B-DPO

Alibaba / Qwen

Qwen3 Coder Next is a coding-specialized open-weight model from Alibaba's Qwen3 family, built on the Qwen3-Next architecture with hybrid attention and Mixture-of-Experts design optimized for local development and agentic coding workflows. It targets on-device and self-hosted deployments requiring a capable coding agent that can operate within consumer hardware constraints.

ByteDance

UI-TARS-72B-DPO, released by ByteDance in early 2025, is a 72 billion parameter multimodal large language model from the UI-TARS family, built on Qwen-2-VL and fine-tuned for automated GUI interaction and computer control. It features native understanding of screenshots, UI elements, and web interfaces, achieving strong results across GUI benchmarks for perception, grounding, and agentic control. UI-TARS-72B-DPO targets computer-use agents, web automation, and applications requiring robust visual UI reasoning.