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Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct vs Solar Pro4

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 41.5 on the Noometry Index. Solar Pro4 costs 1.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

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

42.5

Rank #100 Confirmed

Solar Pro4 Upstage

41.5

Rank #123 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher in 6 categories and Solar Pro4 in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Solar Pro4 leads 42.0 to 37.0.
  • Solar Pro4 is cheaper at $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $2 for Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct.
  • Solar Pro4 accepts more context: 524K tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructSolar Pro4
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Upstage
Noometry Index42.541.5
Released2025-092026-08-06
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window131K524K
Max output33K131K
Input $ / M tokens$0.50$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$2$1.20
Results tracked2518

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.9 (#101), Solar Pro4: 39.9 (#135)

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructSolar Pro4
LMArena Coding14411439
LMArena WebDev—1371

Reasoning Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 30.1 (#79), Solar Pro4: 27.3 (#107)

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructSolar Pro4
LMArena Hard Prompts14281398
Kagi LLM Benchmark66.7%—

Math Too close to call

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 36.3 (#118), Solar Pro4: 36.1 (#129)

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructSolar Pro4
LMArena Math14401418
Omni-MATH46.7%—

Knowledge Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.3 (#102), Solar Pro4: 39.0 (#128)

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructSolar Pro4
LMArena Expert14161421
MMLU-Pro78.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—
GPQA (HELM)63%—

Multilingual Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.3 (#88), Solar Pro4: 49.0 (#134)

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructSolar Pro4
LMArena Non-English14071362
LMArena Chinese14611417
LMArena French14151403
LMArena German14161351
LMArena Japanese13981300
LMArena Korean13661383
LMArena Russian14031360
LMArena Spanish14361408

Instruction Following Solar Pro4 leads

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 71.0 (#154), Solar Pro4: 72.8 (#128)

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructSolar Pro4
LMArena Instruction Following13881376
IFEval81%—

Long Context Solar Pro4 leads

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#218), Solar Pro4: 42.0 (#125)

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructSolar Pro4
LMArena Longer Query14031379
Fiction.LiveBench55.6%—

Writing & Preference Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.2 (#116), Solar Pro4: 56.7 (#133)

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructSolar Pro4
LMArena Text14171386
LMArena Creative Writing13331313
LMArena Multi-Turn14151391
WildBench80.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better than Solar Pro4?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 41.5 on the Noometry Index. Solar Pro4 costs 1.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct or Solar Pro4?

Solar Pro4 is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct lists at $0.50 and $2.

Is Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct or Solar Pro4 better for coding?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 39.9 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Solar Pro4 does, with 524K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct and Solar Pro4 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25 scored results on Noometry and Solar Pro4 has 18.

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