# Grok 3 vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct

> Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 39.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/grok-3-vs-qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 25

## Summary

- They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 3 scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 31.1 to 13.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is IFEval: 88.4% for Grok 3 and 81% for Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Grok 3 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 39.9 | 43.0 |
| Rank | 157 | 102 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.50 |
| Output $/M | — | $2 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Grok 3: 41.9 (#115)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 42.5 (#98)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1432 | 1440 |
| Aider Polyglot | 53.3% | — |
| WeirdML | 37.2% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Grok 3: 30.5 (#76)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 29.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- Grok 3: 13.7 (#333)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 31.1 (#81)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 61.3% | 66.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1434 | 1428 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 36.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5.5% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 138.33 | — |

## Math

- Grok 3: 38.0 (#145)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 38.8 (#126)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 46.4% | 46.7% |
| LMArena Math | 1391 | 1440 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 55.6% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 88.7% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 3.8% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |

## Knowledge

- Grok 3: 46.2 (#82)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.8 (#106)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 78.8% | 78.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.8% | 9.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65% | 63% |
| LMArena Expert | 1421 | 1417 |
| GPQA Diamond | 75.8% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Grok 3: 52.3 (#87)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.1 (#93)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1410 | 1407 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1448 | 1460 |
| LMArena French | 1460 | 1413 |
| LMArena German | 1431 | 1417 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1387 | 1395 |
| LMArena Korean | 1373 | 1364 |
| LMArena Russian | 1416 | 1404 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1417 | 1435 |

## Instruction Following

- Grok 3: 75.0 (#73)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 70.8 (#159)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 88.4% | 81% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1409 | 1389 |

## Long Context

- Grok 3: 38.7 (#192)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#223)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 58.3% | 55.6% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1439 | 1403 |

## Writing & Preference

- Grok 3: 55.8 (#141)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.0 (#121)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1426 | 1417 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1414 | 1334 |
| WildBench | 84.9% | 80.7% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1425 | 1416 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.4% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1186 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Grok 3 better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 39.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Grok 3 or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (41.9 vs 42.5); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Grok 3 and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.