Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 vs Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct: Specs & Benchmark Comparison

CharacteristicQwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
CompanyAlibabaAlibaba
Release DateJuly 24, 2025September 9, 2025
Parameters235B80B
MultimodalNoNo
Context (input)256K66K
Context (output)131K66K
Input Price / 1M$0.30$0.15
Output Price / 1M$3.00$1.50
Average Score0.90.9
Benchmarks
MMLU-Redux0.90.9
IFEval0.90.9

Visual Benchmark Comparison

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
MMLU-Redux0.9 vs 0.9
0.9
0.9
IFEval0.9 vs 0.9
0.9
0.9

Verdict

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct leads in 2 out of 4 comparison categories.

Overall Performance

Both models show comparable average scores: Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 — 0.9, Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct — 0.9.

API Cost

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is 2.0x cheaper: input $0.15/1M vs $0.30/1M tokens.

Context Window

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 supports a larger context: 256K vs 66K tokens.

Recency

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is newer: released 9/9/2025 vs 7/24/2025.

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