# Command R+ vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct

> Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/command-r-plus-vs-qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Command R+ scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 31.1 to 9.2.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is cheaper at $0.50 / $2 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command R+.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.

## Snapshot

| | Command R+ | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 32.4 | 43.0 |
| Rank | 257 | 102 |
| Context | 128K | 131K |
| Input $/M | $2.50 | $0.50 |
| Output $/M | $10 | $2 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Command R+: 29.1 (#309)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 42.5 (#98)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1187 | 1440 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 33.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 19.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 41.9% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 56.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 63.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- Command R+: 9.2 (#344)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 31.1 (#81)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1186 | 1428 |
| SimpleBench | 17.4% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 66.7% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 24.8% | — |
| DTBench | 54.9% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 38.1% | — |
| LMCA | 5% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.34 | — |
| LiveBench | 31.8% | — |

## Math

- Command R+: 28.9 (#242)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 38.8 (#126)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1188 | 1440 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 46.7% |
| LiveBench Math | 21.3% | — |

## Knowledge

- Command R+: 36.4 (#169)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.8 (#106)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.9% | 9.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1174 | 1417 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 63% |
| MMLU | 69.4% | — |

## Multilingual

- Command R+: 38.6 (#227)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.1 (#93)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1216 | 1407 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1226 | 1460 |
| LMArena French | 1209 | 1413 |
| LMArena German | 1216 | 1417 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1166 | 1395 |
| LMArena Korean | 1138 | 1364 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 1404 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1189 | 1435 |

## Instruction Following

- Command R+: 60.0 (#254)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 70.8 (#159)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1197 | 1389 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 57.6% | — |
| IFEval | — | 81% |

## Long Context

- Command R+: 37.3 (#219)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#223)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1230 | 1403 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 55.6% |

## Writing & Preference

- Command R+: 43.5 (#228)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.0 (#121)

| Benchmark | Command R+ | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1229 | 1417 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 1334 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1213 | 1416 |
| WildBench | — | 80.7% |
| LiveBench Language | 29.7% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Command R+ better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 32.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Command R+ or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens; Command R+ lists at $2.50 and $10.

### Is Command R+ or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.5 versus 29.1 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 Command R+ and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command R+ has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.