Qwen3 Next 80B A3B vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
Wins 5 of 6 areas
Coding · Reasoning · Facts · Long documents · Following instructions
Wins 1 of 6 areas
Agents
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B is the stronger all-rounder.Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct is better at agents.
Scores updated · 30 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.
- CodingWriting and fixing software30Qwen3 Next 80B A3B3 of 3 tests
- ReasoningHard problems that need careful thinking20Qwen3 Next 80B A3B2 of 3 tests · 1 tie
- FactsGetting facts right instead of making them up20Qwen3 Next 80B A3B2 of 2 tests
- Long documentsFinding answers in very long texts10Qwen3 Next 80B A3B1 of 1 test
- Following instructionsDoing exactly what it is asked10Qwen3 Next 80B A3B1 of 1 test
- AgentsCarrying out multi-step tasks on its own01Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct1 of 1 test
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.
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
- Follows unfamiliar, precisely checkable instructionsIFBench+21points ahead
- Recent programming contest problemsLiveCodeBench v6+12.1points ahead
- Reasons across sets of long documentsAA-LCR+11points ahead
Where Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct pulls ahead
No clear win on a test scored out of 100.
Every test, side by side
All 30 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.
CodingQwen3 Next 80B A3B
- LiveCodeBench v6Qwen3 Next 80B A3B by 12.168.756.6+12.1
- SciCodeQwen3 Next 80B A3B by 8.138.830.7+8.1
- Terminal-Bench HardQwen3 Next 80B A3B by 2.29.87.6+2.2
AgentsQwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
- GDPValQwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct by 6.406.4+6.4
ReasoningQwen3 Next 80B A3B
- Humanity's Last ExamQwen3 Next 80B A3B by 512.67.6+5
- GPQA DiamondQwen3 Next 80B A3B by 2.175.973.8+2.1
- CritPttie00tie
FactsQwen3 Next 80B A3B
- AA-Omniscience · Non-hallucinationQwen3 Next 80B A3B by 5.7137.3+5.7
- AA-Omniscience · AccuracyQwen3 Next 80B A3B by 1.71917.3+1.7
Long documentsQwen3 Next 80B A3B
- AA-LCRQwen3 Next 80B A3B by 1163.752.7+11
Following instructionsQwen3 Next 80B A3B
- IFBenchQwen3 Next 80B A3B by 2160.739.7+21
Other results19 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.
- Arena-Hard-V2Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct by 20.462.382.7+20.4
- τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)Qwen3 Next 80B A3B by 19.941.521.6+19.9
- HMMT 2025Qwen3 Next 80B A3B by 19.873.954.1+19.8
- AIME 2025Qwen3 Next 80B A3B by 18.387.869.5+18.3
- Tau2 airlineQwen3 Next 80B A3B by 1560.545.5+15
- AA Agentic IndexQwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct by 12.12.114.2+12.1
- τ²-Bench (Retail)Qwen3 Next 80B A3B by 10.567.857.3+10.5
- TAU-bench (retail)Qwen3 Next 80B A3B by 8.769.660.9+8.7
- AA-OmniscienceQwen3 Next 80B A3B by 8.1-51.4-59.5+8.1
- TAU-bench (airline)Qwen3 Next 80B A3B by 54944+5
- Artificial Analysis Coding IndexQwen3 Next 80B A3B by 2.117.415.3+2.1
- MMLU-ProQwen3 Next 80B A3B by 2.182.780.6+2.1
- MMLU-ProXQwen3 Next 80B A3B by 278.776.7+2
- SuperGPQAQwen3 Next 80B A3B by 260.858.8+2
- BFCL v3Qwen3 Next 80B A3B by 1.77270.3+1.7
- AA IntelligenceQwen3 Next 80B A3B by 1.611.29.6+1.6
- MMLU-ReduxQwen3 Next 80B A3B by 1.692.590.9+1.6
- IFEvalQwen3 Next 80B A3B by 1.388.987.6+1.3
- Includetie78.978.9tie
Questions people ask
Which is better, Qwen3 Next 80B A3B or Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct?
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B wins five of the six areas where both have results: coding, reasoning, facts, long documents and following instructions. Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct wins agents.
Which is better for coding?
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B. It wins 3 of the 3 coding tests both models report; Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct wins none.
Which is cheaper?
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct costs $0.15 and $1.20. For a million tokens read plus a million written, they cost about the same.
How do you compare the two?
We use the 30 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 19 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.