Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct leads with 5.7% higher average benchmark score. Overall, Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
QwQ 32B was developed as a reasoning-focused model, designed to emphasize analytical thinking and problem-solving capabilities. Built with 32 billion parameters optimized for step-by-step reasoning, it demonstrates Qwen's exploration into models that prioritize deliberate analytical processing.
6 months newer

QwQ-32B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-03-05

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-09-10
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

QwQ-32B
QwQ-32B
2024-11-28
Available providers and their performance metrics

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Novita

QwQ-32B

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

QwQ-32B

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

QwQ-32B