# o1-mini vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct

> Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/o1-mini-vs-qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. o1-mini scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 30.1 to 8.9.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | o1-mini | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 42.5 |
| Rank | 230 | 100 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.50 |
| Output $/M | — | $2 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- o1-mini: 35.1 (#218)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.9 (#101)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1362 | 1441 |
| Aider Polyglot | 32.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 36.3% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 48% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 89% | — |
| MBPP+ | 78.8% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- o1-mini: 24.3 (#112)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |

## Reasoning

- o1-mini: 8.9 (#340)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 30.1 (#79)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | 1428 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 18.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 66.7% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 14% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 72.3% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.82 | — |
| LiveBench | 57.8% | — |

## Math

- o1-mini: 33.7 (#168)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 36.3 (#118)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1358 | 1440 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 46.9% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 46.7% |
| LiveBench Math | 62% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 89.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- o1-mini: 34.8 (#180)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.3 (#102)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1316 | 1416 |
| GPQA Diamond | 62.4% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.6% |
| Confabulations | 18.6% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 63% |

## Multilingual

- o1-mini: 43.8 (#177)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.3 (#88)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1289 | 1407 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1314 | 1461 |
| LMArena French | 1292 | 1415 |
| LMArena German | 1278 | 1416 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1245 | 1398 |
| LMArena Korean | 1223 | 1366 |
| LMArena Russian | 1283 | 1403 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1302 | 1436 |

## Instruction Following

- o1-mini: 67.0 (#200)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 71.0 (#154)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1304 | 1388 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 65.4% | — |
| IFEval | — | 81% |

## Long Context

- o1-mini: 40.1 (#156)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#218)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1321 | 1403 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 55.6% |

## Writing & Preference

- o1-mini: 48.6 (#196)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.2 (#116)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1317 | 1417 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1244 | 1333 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1314 | 1415 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 64.9% | — |
| WildBench | — | 80.7% |
| LiveBench Language | 40.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is o1-mini better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

### Is o1-mini or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 35.1 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do o1-mini and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. o1-mini has 39 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.