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Model comparison

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct vs Sonar

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

42.5

Rank #100 Confirmed

Sonar Perplexity

37.8

Rank #184 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 30.1 to 20.3.
  • Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is cheaper at $0.50 / $2 per million input/output tokens, against $1 / $1 for Sonar.
  • Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.
  • Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructSonar
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Perplexity
Noometry Index42.537.8
Released2025-092024-01-01
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window131K128K
Max output33K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.50$1
Output $ / M tokens$2$1
Results tracked257

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.9 (#101), Sonar: 35.1 (#217)

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructSonar
LiveBench Coding—35.1%
LMArena Coding1441—

Reasoning Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 30.1 (#79), Sonar: 20.3 (#221)

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructSonar
Kagi LLM Benchmark66.7%—
LiveBench Reasoning—46.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts1428—
LiveBench Data Analysis—37.9%
LiveBench—46.9%

Math Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 36.3 (#118), Sonar: 31.3 (#197)

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructSonar
Omni-MATH46.7%—
LiveBench Math—41.6%
LMArena Math1440—

Knowledge Not comparable

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.3 (#102), Sonar: —

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructSonar
MMLU-Pro78.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—
GPQA (HELM)63%—
LMArena Expert1416—

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.3 (#88), Sonar: —

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructSonar
LMArena Non-English1407—
LMArena Chinese1461—
LMArena French1415—
LMArena German1416—
LMArena Japanese1398—
LMArena Korean1366—
LMArena Russian1403—
LMArena Spanish1436—

Instruction Following Too close to call

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 71.0 (#154), Sonar: 71.5 (#146)

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructSonar
LiveBench Instruction Following—76.2%
IFEval81%—
LMArena Instruction Following1388—

Long Context Not comparable

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#218), Sonar: —

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructSonar
Fiction.LiveBench55.6%—
LMArena Longer Query1403—

Writing & Preference Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.2 (#116), Sonar: 52.6 (#166)

BenchmarkQwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructSonar
LMArena Text1417—
LMArena Creative Writing1333—
WildBench80.7%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1415—
LiveBench Language—44.1%

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better than Sonar?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct or Sonar?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens; Sonar lists at $1 and $1.

Is Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct or Sonar better for coding?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 35.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct does, with 131K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct and Sonar share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25 scored results on Noometry and Sonar has 7.

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