Model comparison
Qwen Plus vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 36.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen Plus 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 math, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 36.3 to 22.0.
- Qwen Plus is cheaper at $0.40 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $2 for Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct.
- Qwen Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Qwen Plus | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 36.7 | 42.5 |
| Released | 2024-01-25 | 2025-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1M | 131K |
| Max output | 33K | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.40 | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.20 | $2 |
| Results tracked | 20 | 25 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Qwen Plus: 38.3 (#163), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.9 (#101)
| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1328 | 1441 |
Reasoning Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Qwen Plus: 27.6 (#101), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 30.1 (#79)
| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 63.3% | 66.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1317 | 1428 |
| DTBench | 81.1% | — |
| LMCA | 24% | — |
Math Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Qwen Plus: 22.0 (#266), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 36.3 (#118)
| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1326 | 1440 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 17.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 46.7% |
| MATH Level 5 | 65.3% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#245), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.3 (#102)
| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1328 | 1416 |
| GPQA Diamond | 48.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 63% |
Multilingual Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Qwen Plus: 45.3 (#170), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.3 (#88)
| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1310 | 1407 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1347 | 1461 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1251 | 1398 |
| LMArena Russian | 1323 | 1403 |
| LMArena French | — | 1415 |
| LMArena German | — | 1416 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1366 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1436 |
Instruction Following Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Qwen Plus: 69.0 (#176), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 71.0 (#154)
| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1303 | 1388 |
| IFEval | — | 81% |
Long Context Qwen Plus leads
Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#153), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#218)
| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1325 | 1403 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 55.6% |
Writing & Preference Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Qwen Plus: 52.4 (#171), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.2 (#116)
| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1326 | 1417 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1293 | 1333 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1336 | 1415 |
| WildBench | — | 80.7% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Qwen Plus better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 36.7 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Qwen Plus or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
Qwen Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct lists at $0.50 and $2.
Is Qwen Plus or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 38.3 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen Plus does, with 1M tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do Qwen Plus and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen Plus has 20 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.