Model comparison
GPT-6 Astra vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
GPT-6 Astra is the stronger model overall, scoring 70.8 to 43.0 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct costs 23× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-6 Astra's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-6 Astra scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where GPT-6 Astra leads 93.5 to 38.8.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is cheaper at $0.50 / $2 per million input/output tokens, against $10 / $50 for GPT-6 Astra.
- GPT-6 Astra accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| GPT-6 Astra | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 70.8 | 43.0 |
| Released | 2026-09-03 | 2025-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1.05M | 131K |
| Max output | 128K | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $10 | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $50 | $2 |
| Results tracked | 56 | 25 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-6 Astra leads
GPT-6 Astra: 73.7 (#2), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 42.5 (#98)
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Astra | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1487 | 1440 |
| DeepSWE | 74.1% | — |
| FrontierCode | 53.3% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1786 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 65.5% | — |
| SciCode | 56.5% | — |
| GSO | 79.4% | — |
| WeirdML | 93.6% | — |
| MirrorCode | 46.7% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 2,951 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GPT-6 Astra: 52.9 (#3), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Astra | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 64.7% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 20.8% | — |
| BALROG | 68.3% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 34.2% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 15,515 | — |
Reasoning GPT-6 Astra leads
GPT-6 Astra: 85.1 (#1), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 31.1 (#81)
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Astra | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1462 | 1428 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 95% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 66.7% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 98.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 98.5% | — |
| CritPt | 31.7% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 72% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 76.2% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 84% | — |
| DTBench | 97.3% | — |
| LMCA | 64.4% | — |
| Bench to the Future 3 | 0.14 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 166.45 | — |
Math GPT-6 Astra leads
GPT-6 Astra: 93.5 (#2), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 38.8 (#126)
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Astra | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1465 | 1440 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 93.7% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 97.6% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 100% | — |
| ProofBench | 99% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 46.7% |
| FrontierMath Erdős | 2.9% | — |
Knowledge GPT-6 Astra leads
GPT-6 Astra: 75.3 (#1), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.8 (#106)
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Astra | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 8.7% | 9.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1483 | 1417 |
| GPQA Diamond | 95.8% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 54.8% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 75.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 63% |
Multimodal Not comparable
GPT-6 Astra: 55.0 (#3), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Astra | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1281 | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 49.7% | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 80% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1468 | — |
Multilingual GPT-6 Astra leads
GPT-6 Astra: 53.7 (#61), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.1 (#93)
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Astra | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1430 | 1407 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1484 | 1460 |
| LMArena French | 1456 | 1413 |
| LMArena German | 1440 | 1417 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1379 | 1395 |
| LMArena Korean | 1426 | 1364 |
| LMArena Russian | 1436 | 1404 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1407 | 1435 |
Instruction Following GPT-6 Astra leads
GPT-6 Astra: 76.3 (#44), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 70.8 (#159)
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Astra | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1450 | 1389 |
| IFEval | — | 81% |
Long Context GPT-6 Astra leads
GPT-6 Astra: 44.5 (#62), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#223)
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Astra | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1456 | 1403 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 55.6% |
Writing & Preference GPT-6 Astra leads
GPT-6 Astra: 75.3 (#7), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.0 (#121)
| Benchmark | GPT-6 Astra | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1441 | 1417 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1418 | 1334 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1448 | 1416 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 2173 | — |
| WildBench | — | 80.7% |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-6 Astra better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
GPT-6 Astra is the stronger model overall, scoring 70.8 to 43.0 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct costs 23× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-6 Astra's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, GPT-6 Astra 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; GPT-6 Astra lists at $10 and $50.
Is GPT-6 Astra or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?
GPT-6 Astra scores higher on coding benchmarks: 73.7 versus 42.5 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
GPT-6 Astra does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do GPT-6 Astra and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-6 Astra has 56 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.