# Claude 2 vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct

> Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-2-vs-qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 38.8 to 9.3.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 2 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 25.0 | 43.0 |
| Rank | 346 | 102 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.50 |
| Output $/M | — | $2 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 2: —
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 42.5 (#98)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1440 |
| HumanEval+ | 61.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 2: 21.7 (#216)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 31.1 (#81)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 66.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1428 |
| DTBench | 51.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.13 | — |

## Math

- Claude 2: 9.3 (#320)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 38.8 (#126)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 46.7% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1440 |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude 2: 16.9 (#287)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.8 (#106)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 34.7% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 63% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1417 |
| MMLU | 78.5% | — |
| TriviaQA | 87.5% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 2: —
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.1 (#93)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1407 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1460 |
| LMArena French | — | 1413 |
| LMArena German | — | 1417 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1395 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1364 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1404 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1435 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 2: —
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 70.8 (#159)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 81% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1389 |

## Long Context

- Claude 2: —
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#223)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 55.6% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1403 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 2: —
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.0 (#121)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1417 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1334 |
| WildBench | — | 80.7% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1416 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 2 better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.