Model comparison
Nova Premier 1.0 vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 38.3 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Nova Premier 1.0 scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 31.1 to 23.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 44.8% for Nova Premier 1.0 and 66.7% for Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is cheaper at $0.50 / $2 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $12.50 for Nova Premier 1.0.
- Nova Premier 1.0 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 38.3 | 43.0 |
| Released | 2025-04-30 | 2025-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1M | 131K |
| Max output | 10K | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $12.50 | $2 |
| Results tracked | 6 | 25 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Nova Premier 1.0: —, Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 42.5 (#98)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1440 |
Reasoning Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Nova Premier 1.0: 23.0 (#185), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 31.1 (#81)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 44.8% | 66.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1428 |
Math Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Nova Premier 1.0: 33.8 (#199), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 38.8 (#126)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 35% | 46.7% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1440 |
Knowledge Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Nova Premier 1.0: 35.8 (#180), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.8 (#106)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 72.6% | 78.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 51.8% | 63% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.3% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1417 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Nova Premier 1.0: —, Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.1 (#93)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1407 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1460 |
| LMArena French | — | 1413 |
| LMArena German | — | 1417 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1395 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1364 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1404 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1435 |
Instruction Following Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Nova Premier 1.0: 66.8 (#204), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 70.8 (#159)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 80.3% | 81% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1389 |
Long Context Not comparable
Nova Premier 1.0: —, Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#223)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 55.6% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1403 |
Writing & Preference Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Nova Premier 1.0: 51.0 (#178), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.0 (#121)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| WildBench | 78.8% | 80.7% |
| LMArena Text | — | 1417 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1334 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1416 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Nova Premier 1.0 better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 38.3 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Nova Premier 1.0 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; Nova Premier 1.0 lists at $2.50 and $12.50.
Which has the bigger context window?
Nova Premier 1.0 does, with 1M tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do Nova Premier 1.0 and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?
6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nova Premier 1.0 has 6 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.