# Qwen Plus vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct

> Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 37.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/qwen-plus-vs-qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 14

## Summary

- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen Plus 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 math, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 38.8 to 23.3.
- Qwen Plus is cheaper at $0.40 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $2 for Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct.
- Qwen Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Qwen Plus | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 37.1 | 43.0 |
| Rank | 210 | 102 |
| Context | 1M | 131K |
| Input $/M | $0.40 | $0.50 |
| Output $/M | $1.20 | $2 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Qwen Plus: 38.9 (#167)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 42.5 (#98)

| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1328 | 1440 |

## Reasoning

- Qwen Plus: 28.4 (#107)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 31.1 (#81)

| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 63.3% | 66.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1317 | 1428 |
| DTBench | 81.1% | — |
| LMCA | 24% | — |

## Math

- Qwen Plus: 23.3 (#271)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 38.8 (#126)

| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1326 | 1440 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 17.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 46.7% |
| MATH Level 5 | 65.3% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#251)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.8 (#106)

| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1328 | 1417 |
| GPQA Diamond | 48.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 63% |

## Multilingual

- Qwen Plus: 45.1 (#175)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.1 (#93)

| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1310 | 1407 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1347 | 1460 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1251 | 1395 |
| LMArena Russian | 1323 | 1404 |
| LMArena French | — | 1413 |
| LMArena German | — | 1417 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1364 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1435 |

## Instruction Following

- Qwen Plus: 68.8 (#181)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 70.8 (#159)

| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1303 | 1389 |
| IFEval | — | 81% |

## Long Context

- Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#158)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#223)

| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1324 | 1403 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 55.6% |

## Writing & Preference

- Qwen Plus: 52.2 (#176)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.0 (#121)

| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1326 | 1417 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1293 | 1334 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1336 | 1416 |
| WildBench | — | 80.7% |

## FAQ

### Is Qwen Plus better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 37.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Qwen Plus or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?

Qwen Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct lists at $0.50 and $2.

### Is Qwen Plus or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.5 versus 38.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen Plus does, with 1M tokens against 131K.

### How many benchmarks do Qwen Plus and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen Plus has 20 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.