Model comparison
Claude Opus 4 vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
Claude Opus 4 and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.1 vs 43.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Claude Opus 4 leads 77.1 to 70.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Omni-MATH: 61.6% for Claude Opus 4 and 46.7% for Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is cheaper at $0.50 / $2 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $75 for Claude Opus 4.
- Claude Opus 4 accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 131K.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Opus 4 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 43.1 | 43.0 |
| Released | 2025-05-22 | 2025-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 200K | 131K |
| Max output | 32K | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $15 | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $75 | $2 |
| Results tracked | 56 | 25 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Opus 4 leads
Claude Opus 4: 47.2 (#62), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 42.5 (#98)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1442 | 1440 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 70.7% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 67.6% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 72% | — |
| GSO | 6.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 43.7% | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.33 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Opus 4: 34.8 (#42), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 38% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 46.8% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1127 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 63.9% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Claude Opus 4: 27.3 (#121), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 31.1 (#81)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 74.3% | 66.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1399 | 1428 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 8.6% | — |
| SimpleBench | 58.8% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 35.7% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 5.6% | — |
| DTBench | 81.6% | — |
| LMCA | 37.4% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 142.67 | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.1 | — |
Math Claude Opus 4 leads
Claude Opus 4: 42.0 (#86), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 38.8 (#126)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 61.6% | 46.7% |
| LMArena Math | 1390 | 1440 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 64.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 85% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.5% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | — |
Knowledge Claude Opus 4 leads
Claude Opus 4: 44.0 (#88), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.8 (#106)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 87.5% | 78.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 12% | 9.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 70.8% | 63% |
| LMArena Expert | 1386 | 1417 |
| GPQA Diamond | 76.3% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 10.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 15.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Opus 4: 31.5 (#106), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1192 | — |
| GeoBench | 49% | — |
| VPCT | 38% | — |
Multilingual Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Claude Opus 4: 48.8 (#138), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.1 (#93)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1362 | 1407 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1386 | 1460 |
| LMArena French | 1372 | 1413 |
| LMArena German | 1391 | 1417 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1331 | 1395 |
| LMArena Korean | 1321 | 1364 |
| LMArena Russian | 1392 | 1404 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1389 | 1435 |
Instruction Following Claude Opus 4 leads
Claude Opus 4: 77.1 (#28), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 70.8 (#159)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 91.8% | 81% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1406 | 1389 |
Long Context Claude Opus 4 leads
Claude Opus 4: 39.6 (#172), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#223)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 61.1% | 55.6% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1422 | 1403 |
Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4 leads
Claude Opus 4: 61.2 (#89), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.0 (#121)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1377 | 1417 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1387 | 1334 |
| WildBench | 85.2% | 80.7% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1396 | 1416 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 83.6% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1580 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Opus 4 better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
Claude Opus 4 and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.1 vs 43.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4 or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4 lists at $15 and $75.
Is Claude Opus 4 or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?
Claude Opus 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.2 versus 42.5 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Claude Opus 4 does, with 200K tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?
25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.