Noometry

Model comparison

Nemotron 3 Super vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 40.1 on the Noometry Index. Nemotron 3 Super costs 5.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Nemotron 3 Super NVIDIA

40.1

Rank #153 Confirmed

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

43.0

Rank #102 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Nemotron 3 Super scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 31.1 to 18.7.
  • Nemotron 3 Super is cheaper at $0.08 / $0.45 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $2 for Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct.
  • Nemotron 3 Super accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

Nemotron 3 SuperQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
ProviderNVIDIAAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index40.143.0
Released2026-03-112025-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K131K
Max output131K33K
Input $ / M tokens$0.08$0.50
Output $ / M tokens$0.45$2
Results tracked2125

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Nemotron 3 Super: 39.4 (#158), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 42.5 (#98)

BenchmarkNemotron 3 SuperQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Coding14031440
SciCode36%—
WeirdML38%—
ALE-Bench213.9—

Reasoning Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Nemotron 3 Super: 18.7 (#276), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 31.1 (#81)

BenchmarkNemotron 3 SuperQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts13861428
Kagi LLM Benchmark—66.7%
NYT Connections (extended)15.4%—
CritPt3.1%—

Math Too close to call

Nemotron 3 Super: 39.6 (#101), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 38.8 (#126)

BenchmarkNemotron 3 SuperQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Math13801440
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions60.4%—
Omni-MATH—46.7%

Knowledge Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Nemotron 3 Super: 38.9 (#139), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.8 (#106)

BenchmarkNemotron 3 SuperQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Expert13981417
MMLU-Pro—78.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%
GPQA (HELM)—63%

Multilingual Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Nemotron 3 Super: 48.4 (#144), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.1 (#93)

BenchmarkNemotron 3 SuperQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Non-English13551407
LMArena Chinese14321460
LMArena French14051413
LMArena German13411417
LMArena Russian13361404
LMArena Spanish14171435
LMArena Japanese—1395
LMArena Korean—1364

Instruction Following Too close to call

Nemotron 3 Super: 71.2 (#154), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 70.8 (#159)

BenchmarkNemotron 3 SuperQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following13471389
IFEval—81%

Long Context Nemotron 3 Super leads

Nemotron 3 Super: 41.5 (#139), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#223)

BenchmarkNemotron 3 SuperQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query13621403
Fiction.LiveBench—55.6%

Writing & Preference Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Nemotron 3 Super: 55.9 (#140), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.0 (#121)

BenchmarkNemotron 3 SuperQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Text13781417
LMArena Creative Writing13171334
LMArena Multi-Turn13691416
WildBench—80.7%

Frequently asked questions

Is Nemotron 3 Super better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 40.1 on the Noometry Index. Nemotron 3 Super costs 5.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Nemotron 3 Super or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?

Nemotron 3 Super is cheaper. It lists at $0.08 per million input tokens and $0.45 per million output tokens; Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct lists at $0.50 and $2.

Is Nemotron 3 Super or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.5 versus 39.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Nemotron 3 Super does, with 262K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Nemotron 3 Super and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nemotron 3 Super has 21 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.

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