Model comparison
o1-mini vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. o1-mini scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 30.1 to 8.9.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| o1-mini | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 42.5 |
| Released | 2024-09-12 | 2025-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Results tracked | 39 | 25 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
o1-mini: 35.1 (#218), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.9 (#101)
| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1362 | 1441 |
| Aider Polyglot | 32.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 36.3% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 48% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 89% | — |
| MBPP+ | 78.8% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
o1-mini: 24.3 (#112), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
o1-mini: 8.9 (#340), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 30.1 (#79)
| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | 1428 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 18.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 66.7% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 14% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 72.3% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.82 | — |
| LiveBench | 57.8% | — |
Math Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
o1-mini: 33.7 (#168), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 36.3 (#118)
| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1358 | 1440 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 46.9% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 46.7% |
| LiveBench Math | 62% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 89.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
o1-mini: 34.8 (#180), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.3 (#102)
| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1316 | 1416 |
| GPQA Diamond | 62.4% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.6% |
| Confabulations | 18.6% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 63% |
Multilingual Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
o1-mini: 43.8 (#177), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.3 (#88)
| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1289 | 1407 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1314 | 1461 |
| LMArena French | 1292 | 1415 |
| LMArena German | 1278 | 1416 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1245 | 1398 |
| LMArena Korean | 1223 | 1366 |
| LMArena Russian | 1283 | 1403 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1302 | 1436 |
Instruction Following Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
o1-mini: 67.0 (#200), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 71.0 (#154)
| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1304 | 1388 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 65.4% | — |
| IFEval | — | 81% |
Long Context o1-mini leads
o1-mini: 40.1 (#156), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#218)
| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1321 | 1403 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 55.6% |
Writing & Preference Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
o1-mini: 48.6 (#196), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.2 (#116)
| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1317 | 1417 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1244 | 1333 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1314 | 1415 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 64.9% | — |
| WildBench | — | 80.7% |
| LiveBench Language | 40.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is o1-mini better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is o1-mini or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 35.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do o1-mini and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. o1-mini has 39 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.