Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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.
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.
Launched on the same date

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-09-10

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-09-10
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Novita

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking