Model comparison
Claude 2.1 vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 36.3 to 9.6.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 2.1 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 24.9 | 42.5 |
| Released | 2023-11-21 | 2025-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 25 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Claude 2.1: 25.8 (#322), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.9 (#101)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 7.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1441 |
Reasoning Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Claude 2.1: 20.6 (#216), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 30.1 (#79)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 66.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1428 |
| DTBench | 51% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.22 | — |
| ForecastBench | 54.2 | — |
Math Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Claude 2.1: 9.6 (#309), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 36.3 (#118)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.9% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 46.7% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1440 |
Knowledge Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Claude 2.1: 15.5 (#287), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.3 (#102)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 63% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1416 |
| MMLU | 73.5% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.3 (#88)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1407 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1461 |
| LMArena French | — | 1415 |
| LMArena German | — | 1416 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1398 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1366 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1403 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1436 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 71.0 (#154)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 81% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1388 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#218)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 55.6% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1403 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.2 (#116)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1417 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1333 |
| WildBench | — | 80.7% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1415 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 2.1 better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 2.1 or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 25.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 2.1 and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2.1 has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.