GPT-5.1 Medium vs Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
| Characteristic | GPT-5.1 Medium | Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Company | OpenAI | Alibaba |
| Release Date | November 11, 2025 | September 9, 2025 |
| Parameters | — | 80B |
| Multimodal | Yes | No |
| Context (input) | 256K | 66K |
| Context (output) | 64K | 66K |
| Input Price / 1M | $1.00 | $0.15 |
| Output Price / 1M | $4.00 | $1.50 |
| Average Score | 1.0 | 0.9 |
Verdict
GPT-5.1 Medium leads in 2 out of 4 comparison categories.
Overall Performance
Both models show comparable average scores: GPT-5.1 Medium — 1.0, Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct — 0.9.
API Cost
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is 3.0x cheaper: input $0.15/1M vs $1.00/1M tokens.
Context Window
GPT-5.1 Medium supports a larger context: 256K vs 66K tokens.
Recency
GPT-5.1 Medium is newer: released 11/11/2025 vs 9/9/2025.
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