Noometry

Model comparison

Qwen3.7 Plus vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct

Qwen3.7 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 43.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3.7 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

45.3

Rank #72 Confirmed

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

43.0

Rank #102 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen3.7 Plus scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.7 Plus leads 54.9 to 41.8.
  • Qwen3.7 Plus is cheaper at $0.40 / $1.60 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $2 for Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct.
  • Qwen3.7 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

Qwen3.7 PlusQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index45.343.0
Released2026-06-022025-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M131K
Max output131K33K
Input $ / M tokens$0.40$0.50
Output $ / M tokens$1.60$2
Results tracked3225

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Qwen3.7 Plus: 36.6 (#206), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 42.5 (#98)

BenchmarkQwen3.7 PlusQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Coding14731440
FrontierCode10.2%—
SciCode45.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen3.7 Plus: 21.4 (#138), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: —

BenchmarkQwen3.7 PlusQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
OSWorld 2.02.8%—

Reasoning Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Qwen3.7 Plus: 39.3 (#59), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 31.1 (#81)

BenchmarkQwen3.7 PlusQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts14601428
Kagi LLM Benchmark—66.7%
NYT Connections (extended)74.8%—
CritPt9.1%—
Chess Puzzles24%—
Mystery Game Puzzles17%—
DTBench84%—
LMCA37.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index147.37—

Math Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Qwen3.7 Plus: 50.5 (#56), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 38.8 (#126)

BenchmarkQwen3.7 PlusQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Math14661440
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)34.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202593.3%—
Omni-MATH—46.7%

Knowledge Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Qwen3.7 Plus: 54.9 (#51), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.8 (#106)

BenchmarkQwen3.7 PlusQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Expert14671417
GPQA Diamond87.9%—
MMLU-Pro—78.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%
GPQA (HELM)—63%

Multimodal Not comparable

Qwen3.7 Plus: 41.8 (#33), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: —

BenchmarkQwen3.7 PlusQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Vision1279—
LMArena Document1444—

Multilingual Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Qwen3.7 Plus: 54.8 (#38), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.1 (#93)

BenchmarkQwen3.7 PlusQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Non-English14451407
LMArena Chinese15101460
LMArena French14731413
LMArena German14711417
LMArena Japanese14131395
LMArena Korean14151364
LMArena Russian14571404
LMArena Spanish14571435

Instruction Following Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Qwen3.7 Plus: 75.8 (#52), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 70.8 (#159)

BenchmarkQwen3.7 PlusQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14401389
IFEval—81%

Long Context Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Qwen3.7 Plus: 44.5 (#65), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#223)

BenchmarkQwen3.7 PlusQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query14551403
Fiction.LiveBench—55.6%

Writing & Preference Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Qwen3.7 Plus: 64.3 (#56), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.0 (#121)

BenchmarkQwen3.7 PlusQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Text14551417
LMArena Creative Writing14391334
LMArena Multi-Turn14601416
WildBench—80.7%

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3.7 Plus better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?

Qwen3.7 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 43.0 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Qwen3.7 Plus or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?

Qwen3.7 Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.60 per million output tokens; Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct lists at $0.50 and $2.

Is Qwen3.7 Plus or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.5 versus 36.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.7 Plus does, with 1M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Qwen3.7 Plus and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3.7 Plus has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.

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