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Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B

Alibaba · released

Wins 2 of 6 areas

Agents · Facts

Alibaba · released

Wins 4 of 6 areas

Coding · Reasoning · Long documents · Following instructions

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B is the stronger all-rounder.Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 is cheaper and better at facts.

Scores updated · 34 tests both models report · How we compare

Where each one wins

Tests won in each of the six areas where both have results. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.

Agents, long documents and following instructions rest on a single test each.

What it costs

Prices per million tokens, roughly 750,000 words. The bars show the cost of a million tokens read plus a million written.

Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507$0.23 to read · $0.92 to write$1.15Price from Alibaba's own price page
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B$0.15 to read · $1.20 to write$1.35Price from Artificial Analysis

Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 costs 15% less for the same work.

The biggest differences

The tests each model wins by the widest margin, up to three each. Scores are out of 100.

Where Qwen3 Next 80B A3B pulls ahead

  • Reasons across sets of long documentsAA-LCR+29.8points aheadQwen3 Next 80B A3B63.7Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 250733.9
  • Recent programming contest problemsLiveCodeBench v6+16.9points aheadQwen3 Next 80B A3B68.7Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 250751.8
  • Follows unfamiliar, precisely checkable instructionsIFBench+14.6points aheadQwen3 Next 80B A3B60.7Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 250746.1

Where Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 pulls ahead

  • Avoids making up answers it doesn't knowAA-Omniscience · Non-hallucination+9.8points aheadQwen3 235B A22B Instruct 250722.8Qwen3 Next 80B A3B13
  • Hard command-line tasks in a real terminalTerminal-Bench Hard+5.4points aheadQwen3 235B A22B Instruct 250715.2Qwen3 Next 80B A3B9.8

Every test, side by side

All 34 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.

CodingQwen3 Next 80B A3B

Full coding ranking

AgentsQwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
  • GDPValQwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 by 14.114.10+14.1

Full agents ranking

ReasoningQwen3 Next 80B A3B

Full reasoning ranking

FactsQwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507

Full facts ranking

Long documentsQwen3 Next 80B A3B
  • AA-LCRQwen3 Next 80B A3B by 29.833.963.7+29.8

Full long documents ranking

Following instructionsQwen3 Next 80B A3B
  • IFBenchQwen3 Next 80B A3B by 14.646.160.7+14.6

Full following instructions ranking

Other results23 tests, not counted

Tests outside the eight areas. They are not counted above: several are summary scores built from other tests, or the same test under another name.

Questions people ask

Which is better, Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 or Qwen3 Next 80B A3B?

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B wins four of the six areas where both have results: coding, reasoning, long documents and following instructions. Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 wins agents and facts, and costs 15% less.

Which is better for coding?

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B. It wins 2 of the 3 coding tests both models report; Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 wins 1.

Which is cheaper?

Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 costs $0.23 per million input tokens and $0.92 per million output tokens; Qwen3 Next 80B A3B costs $0.15 and $1.20. That makes Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 about 15% cheaper for the same work.

How do you compare the two?

We use the 34 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 11 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 23 are listed but not counted, because several are summary scores or repeat a test. Each score is the one shown on the model's own page.