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Qwen3 4B Thinking 2507vsQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 9 of 13 shared benchmarks. Both offer a 262K-token context window.

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
4 – 9
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Tie
both 262K tokens
Providers
Qwen
same provider
Qwen3 4B Thinking 2507
Qwen · released 2025-08-06
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Context
262K
Max out
—
Input /1M
—
Output /1M
—
Cached /1M
—
Scores
15 · 5 core
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
Qwen · released 2025-09-11
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Context
262K
Max out
—
Input /1M
$0.15 ↗
Output /1M
$1.2 ↗
Cached /1M
—
Scores
16 · 6 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkQwen3 4B Thinking 2507Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructΔEdge
Reported by both · 13
MMLU-Pro74% ↗80.6% ↗-6.6 ptQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
AIME2581.3% ↗69.5% ↗+11.8 ptQwen3 4B Thinking 2507
Arena-Hard v234.9% ↗82.7% ↗-47.8 ptQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
BFCL-v371.2% ↗70.3% ↗+0.9 ptQwen3 4B Thinking 2507
GPQA65.8% ↗72.9% ↗-7.1 ptQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
HMMT2555.5% ↗54.1% ↗+1.4 ptQwen3 4B Thinking 2507
IFEval87.4% ↗87.6% ↗-0.2 ptQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LiveBench 2024112571.8% ↗75.8% ↗-4 ptQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LiveCodeBench v6 (25.02-25.05)55.2% ↗56.6% ↗-1.4 ptQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
MMLU-Redux86.1% ↗90.9% ↗-4.8 ptQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
SuperGPQA47.8% ↗58.8% ↗-11 ptQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
TAU2-Airline58% ↗45.5% ↗+12.5 ptQwen3 4B Thinking 2507
TAU2-Retail53.5% ↗57.3% ↗-3.8 ptQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
Only Qwen3 4B Thinking 2507 reports · 2
OJBench17.9% ↗not reported——
TAU2-Telecom27.2% ↗not reported——
Only Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct reports · 3
LMArena Elonot reported1399 ↗——
Aider-Polyglotnot reported49.8% ↗——
MultiPL-Enot reported87.8% ↗——
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 4B 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

SpecQwen3 4B Thinking 2507Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructEdge
Context window262K tokens262K tokensTie
Max output———
Input price / 1M—$0.15 ↗—
Output price / 1M—$1.2 ↗—
Cached input / 1M———
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
—$1.35—
ModalitiestexttextTie
Released2025-08-062025-09-11—
Cited benchmark scores1516—
Reliability

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