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Qwen3 235B-A22B Thinking 2507vsQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
Qwen3 235B-A22B Thinking 2507 leads 13 of 14 shared benchmarks. Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is 1.9x cheaper per token. Both offer a 262K-token context window.
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
13 – 1
Qwen3 235B-A22B Thinking 2507 leads
Cheaper per token
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
1.9x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Tie
both 262K tokens
Providers
Qwen
same provider
Qwen3 235B-A22B Thinking 2507
Qwen · released 2025-07-25
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Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
Qwen · released 2025-09-11
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Quality
Benchmark matrix
14 shared · 9 only Qwen3 235B-A22B Thinking 2507 · 2 only Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct| Benchmark | Qwen3 235B-A22B Thinking 2507 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 14 | ||||
| MMLU-Pro | 84.4% ↗ | 80.6% ↗ | +3.8 pt | Qwen3 235B-A22B Thinking 2507 |
| LMArena Elo | 1400 ↗ | 1399 ↗ | +1 | Qwen3 235B-A22B Thinking 2507 |
| AIME25 | 92.3% ↗ | 69.5% ↗ | +22.8 pt | Qwen3 235B-A22B Thinking 2507 |
| Arena-Hard v2 | 79.7% ↗ | 82.7% ↗ | -3 pt | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
| BFCL-v3 | 71.9% ↗ | 70.3% ↗ | +1.6 pt | Qwen3 235B-A22B Thinking 2507 |
| GPQA | 81.1% ↗ | 72.9% ↗ | +8.2 pt | Qwen3 235B-A22B Thinking 2507 |
| HMMT25 | 83.9% ↗ | 54.1% ↗ | +29.8 pt | Qwen3 235B-A22B Thinking 2507 |
| IFEval | 87.8% ↗ | 87.6% ↗ | +0.2 pt | Qwen3 235B-A22B Thinking 2507 |
| LiveBench 20241125 | 78.4% ↗ | 75.8% ↗ | +2.6 pt | Qwen3 235B-A22B Thinking 2507 |
| LiveCodeBench v6 (25.02-25.05) | 74.1% ↗ | 56.6% ↗ | +17.5 pt | Qwen3 235B-A22B Thinking 2507 |
| MMLU-Redux | 93.8% ↗ | 90.9% ↗ | +2.9 pt | Qwen3 235B-A22B Thinking 2507 |
| SuperGPQA | 64.9% ↗ | 58.8% ↗ | +6.1 pt | Qwen3 235B-A22B Thinking 2507 |
| TAU2-Airline | 58% ↗ | 45.5% ↗ | +12.5 pt | Qwen3 235B-A22B Thinking 2507 |
| TAU2-Retail | 71.9% ↗ | 57.3% ↗ | +14.6 pt | Qwen3 235B-A22B Thinking 2507 |
| Only Qwen3 235B-A22B Thinking 2507 reports · 9 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 80.1% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run) | 12% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| HLE (text-only) | 18.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run) | 9% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| OJBench | 32.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 86.7% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 40.4% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs) | -11.34 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle) | 41% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct reports · 2 | ||||
| Aider-Polyglot | not reported | 49.8% ↗ | — | — |
| MultiPL-E | not reported | 87.8% ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Qwen3 235B-A22B Thinking 2507 minus Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Qwen3 235B-A22B Thinking 2507 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 262K tokens | 262K tokens | Tie |
| Max output | — | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $0.23 ↗ | $0.15 ↗ | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
| Output price / 1M | $2.3 ↗ | $1.2 ↗ | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
| Cached input / 1M | — | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $2.53 | $1.35 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
| Modalities | text | text | Tie |
| Released | 2025-07-25 | 2025-09-11 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 23 | 16 | — |
Reliability
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