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Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructvsQwen3-VL 235B-A22B Thinking
Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Thinking leads 6 of 7 shared benchmarks. Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is 3.3x cheaper per token. Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has the larger context window (262K tokens).
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Shared benchmarks
1 – 6
Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Thinking leads
Cheaper per token
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
3.3x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
262K tokens
Providers
Qwen
same provider
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
Qwen · released 2025-09-11
text
Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Thinking
Qwen · released 2025-09-23
textvisionvideo
Quality
Benchmark matrix
7 shared · 9 only Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct · 10 only Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Thinking| Benchmark | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct | Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Thinking | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 7 | ||||
| MMLU-Pro | 80.6% ↗ | 83.8% ↗ | -3.2 pt | Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Thinking |
| LMArena Elo | 1399 ↗ | 1395 ↗ | +4 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
| AIME25 | 69.5% ↗ | 89.7% ↗ | -20.2 pt | Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Thinking |
| HMMT25 | 54.1% ↗ | 77.4% ↗ | -23.3 pt | Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Thinking |
| IFEval | 87.6% ↗ | 88.2% ↗ | -0.6 pt | Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Thinking |
| MMLU-Redux | 90.9% ↗ | 93.7% ↗ | -2.8 pt | Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Thinking |
| SuperGPQA | 58.8% ↗ | 64.3% ↗ | -5.5 pt | Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Thinking |
| Only Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct reports · 9 | ||||
| Aider-Polyglot | 49.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Arena-Hard v2 | 82.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| BFCL-v3 | 70.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| GPQA | 72.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench 20241125 | 75.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench v6 (25.02-25.05) | 56.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MultiPL-E | 87.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| TAU2-Airline | 45.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| TAU2-Retail | 57.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Thinking reports · 10 | ||||
| BFCL | not reported | 71.9% ↗ | — | — |
| HLE | not reported | 13.6% ↗ | — | — |
| LCB v6 | not reported | 70.1% ↗ | — | — |
| LMArena Vision (LMArena) | not reported | 1188 ↗ | — | — |
| MathVista (mini) | not reported | 85.8% ↗ | — | — |
| MMMU (val) | not reported | 80.6% ↗ | — | — |
| MMMU_Pro | not reported | 69.3% ↗ | — | — |
| OSWorld | not reported | 38.1% ↗ | — | — |
| SimpleQA | not reported | 44.4% ↗ | — | — |
| VideoMME (w/o sub) | not reported | 79% ↗ | — | — |
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-Next 80B-A3B Instruct minus Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Thinking 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-Next 80B-A3B Instruct | Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Thinking | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 262K tokens | 256K tokens | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
| Max output | — | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $0.15 ↗ | $0.4 ↗ | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
| Output price / 1M | $1.2 ↗ | $4 ↗ | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
| Cached input / 1M | — | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $1.35 | $4.4 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
| Modalities | text | text · vision · video | Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Thinking |
| Released | 2025-09-11 | 2025-09-23 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 16 | 17 | — |
Reliability
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