Model comparison
Claude 2 vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 24.7 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 8.7.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 2 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 24.7 | 42.5 |
| Released | 2023-07-11 | 2025-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Results tracked | 8 | 25 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.9 (#101)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1441 |
| HumanEval+ | 61.6% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Claude 2: 20.8 (#213), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 30.1 (#79)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 66.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1428 |
| DTBench | 51.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.08 | — |
Math Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Claude 2: 8.7 (#314), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 36.3 (#118)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 46.7% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1440 |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Claude 2: 17.0 (#282), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.3 (#102)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 34.7% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 63% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1416 |
| MMLU | 78.5% | — |
| TriviaQA | 87.5% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.3 (#88)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | 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: —, Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 71.0 (#154)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 81% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1388 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#218)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 55.6% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1403 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.2 (#116)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | 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 better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 24.7 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.