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Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct vs Sonar

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 38.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

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

43.0

Rank #102 Confirmed

Sonar Perplexity

38.5

Rank #187 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 31.1 to 21.1.
  • Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is cheaper at $0.50 / $2 per million input/output tokens, against $1 / $1 for Sonar.
  • Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.
  • Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructSonar
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Perplexity
Noometry Index43.038.5
Released2025-092024-01-01
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window131K128K
Max output33K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.50$1
Output $ / M tokens$2$1
Results tracked257

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 42.5 (#98), Sonar: 35.7 (#221)

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructSonar
LiveBench Coding—35.1%
LMArena Coding1440—

Reasoning Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 31.1 (#81), Sonar: 21.1 (#227)

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructSonar
Kagi LLM Benchmark66.7%—
LiveBench Reasoning—46.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts1428—
LiveBench Data Analysis—37.9%
LiveBench—46.9%

Math Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 38.8 (#126), Sonar: 33.7 (#200)

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructSonar
Omni-MATH46.7%—
LiveBench Math—41.6%
LMArena Math1440—

Knowledge Not comparable

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.8 (#106), Sonar: —

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructSonar
MMLU-Pro78.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—
GPQA (HELM)63%—
LMArena Expert1417—

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.1 (#93), Sonar: —

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructSonar
LMArena Non-English1407—
LMArena Chinese1460—
LMArena French1413—
LMArena German1417—
LMArena Japanese1395—
LMArena Korean1364—
LMArena Russian1404—
LMArena Spanish1435—

Instruction Following Too close to call

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 70.8 (#159), Sonar: 71.4 (#150)

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructSonar
LiveBench Instruction Following—76.2%
IFEval81%—
LMArena Instruction Following1389—

Long Context Not comparable

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#223), Sonar: —

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructSonar
Fiction.LiveBench55.6%—
LMArena Longer Query1403—

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

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.0 (#121), Sonar: 52.6 (#167)

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructSonar
LMArena Text1417—
LMArena Creative Writing1334—
WildBench80.7%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1416—
LiveBench Language—44.1%

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better than Sonar?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 38.5 on the Noometry Index.

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

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens; Sonar lists at $1 and $1.

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

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.5 versus 35.7 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct does, with 131K tokens against 128K.

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

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

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