Model comparison
Nemotron 3 Ultra vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
Nemotron 3 Ultra and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.5 vs 43.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIA
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Nemotron 3 Ultra scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Nemotron 3 Ultra leads 52.5 to 41.8.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is cheaper at $0.50 / $2 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $2.20 for Nemotron 3 Ultra.
- Nemotron 3 Ultra accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.
Side by side
| Nemotron 3 Ultra | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | NVIDIA | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 42.5 | 43.0 |
| Released | 2026-06-04 | 2025-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | 131K |
| Max output | 128K | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.50 | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2.20 | $2 |
| Results tracked | 30 | 25 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Nemotron 3 Ultra: 38.1 (#182), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 42.5 (#98)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1468 | 1440 |
| FrontierCode | 13.6% | — |
| SciCode | 40.3% | — |
| WeirdML | 43.5% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Nemotron 3 Ultra: 23.4 (#126), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 22.7% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Nemotron 3 Ultra: 31.0 (#82), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 31.1 (#81)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1452 | 1428 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 66.7% |
| CritPt | 3.1% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 12% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 20% | — |
| DTBench | 90.1% | — |
| LMCA | 36.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 146.17 | — |
Math Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Nemotron 3 Ultra: 35.3 (#187), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 38.8 (#126)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1457 | 1440 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 86.7% | — |
| ProofBench | 2% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 46.7% |
Knowledge Nemotron 3 Ultra leads
Nemotron 3 Ultra: 52.5 (#61), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.8 (#106)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1472 | 1417 |
| GPQA Diamond | 85.4% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 63% |
Multilingual Nemotron 3 Ultra leads
Nemotron 3 Ultra: 53.5 (#64), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.1 (#93)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1427 | 1407 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1497 | 1460 |
| LMArena French | 1472 | 1413 |
| LMArena German | 1471 | 1417 |
| LMArena Korean | 1386 | 1364 |
| LMArena Russian | 1417 | 1404 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1454 | 1435 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1395 |
Instruction Following Nemotron 3 Ultra leads
Nemotron 3 Ultra: 74.7 (#88), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 70.8 (#159)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1418 | 1389 |
| IFEval | — | 81% |
Long Context Nemotron 3 Ultra leads
Nemotron 3 Ultra: 43.9 (#81), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#223)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1437 | 1403 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 55.6% |
Writing & Preference Nemotron 3 Ultra leads
Nemotron 3 Ultra: 66.3 (#36), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.0 (#121)
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1445 | 1417 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1398 | 1334 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1411 | 1416 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1692 | — |
| WildBench | — | 80.7% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Nemotron 3 Ultra better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
Nemotron 3 Ultra and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.5 vs 43.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Nemotron 3 Ultra or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens; Nemotron 3 Ultra lists at $0.50 and $2.20.
Is Nemotron 3 Ultra or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.5 versus 38.1 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Nemotron 3 Ultra does, with 262K tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do Nemotron 3 Ultra and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?
16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nemotron 3 Ultra has 30 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.