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Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct

Alibaba · 81B · A3B · open weights

Strongest in Core abilities (#86 of 204, on 1 of its 3 boards), weakest in Human preference (#125 of 341). Above par in 4 of 4 scopes. Among the models it meets almost everywhere, it finishes behind Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Opus 4.6 and ahead of DeepSeek V3 and GPT-4.1 Mini.

§ 1 · Profile

What it is good at

Bars run from 50 — the average of the models each source lists — so right of the line is above par. The middle column is the gap to whoever leads that scope.

Core abilities50.6−16.8#86/2041/3

General intelligence50.8−19.3#88/2041/3

Human preference56.9−10.6#125/3411/1

§ 2 · Head to head

What it beats, and what beats it

The same models turn up scope after scope. Counted once: where both were placed, who finished higher. Bars run right for Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct, left for the other.

Granite 4.2 30Bwon 3 · lost 0

Claude 3 Haikuwon 4 · lost 0

Llama 3 70B Instructwon 4 · lost 0

Granite 4.2 8Bwon 4 · lost 0

Granite 4.2 3Bwon 4 · lost 0

Gemma 3 4B Itwon 4 · lost 0

Magistral Mediumwon 4 · lost 0

Mercurywon 4 · lost 0

Gemma 3n E4b Itwon 4 · lost 0

GPT-4o Miniwon 4 · lost 0

GPT OSS 20Bwon 4 · lost 0

Llama 4 Scout Instructwon 4 · lost 0

GPT-4.1 Nanowon 4 · lost 0

Qwen3 32Bwon 4 · lost 0

GPT OSS 120Bwon 4 · lost 0

Command Awon 4 · lost 0

Mistral Smallwon 4 · lost 0

Gemini 2.0 Flashwon 4 · lost 0

Gemma 3 27B Itwon 4 · lost 0

Trinity Largewon 4 · lost 0

GLM-4.5 Airwon 4 · lost 0

Gemini 2.5 Flash Litewon 4 · lost 0

GPT-4.1 Miniwon 4 · lost 0

DeepSeek V3won 4 · lost 0

Llama 4 Maverick Instructwon 2 · lost 2

GPT-5 Nanowon 2 · lost 2

MiniMax M2won 2 · lost 2

Qwen Pluswon 2 · lost 2

Step 3won 2 · lost 2

GLM-4.5vwon 2 · lost 2

Grok 3 Miniwon 2 · lost 2

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinkingwon 2 · lost 2

GPT-5 Miniwon 2 · lost 2

MiniMax M2.5won 2 · lost 2

O4 Miniwon 2 · lost 2

GPT-5.4 Nanowon 2 · lost 2

Mistral Mediumwon 2 · lost 2

Mistral Large 3won 2 · lost 2

Claude Haiku 4.5won 2 · lost 2

GPT-4.1won 2 · lost 2

DeepSeek V3.1won 2 · lost 2

Qwen3.5 122B A10Bwon 2 · lost 2

Kimi K2won 2 · lost 2

Muse Glimmerwon 2 · lost 2

GLM-4.6won 2 · lost 2

DeepSeek V3.2won 2 · lost 2

Mistral Medium 3.5won 2 · lost 2

Longcat Flash Chatwon 2 · lost 2

MiniMax M3won 2 · lost 2

Inklingwon 2 · lost 2

Grok 4.3won 2 · lost 2

Qwen3.6 Pluswon 2 · lost 2

GPT-5.4 Miniwon 2 · lost 2

GPT-5.6 Lunawon 2 · lost 2

Gemini 3.5 Flash Litewon 2 · lost 2

Qwen3.7 Pluswon 2 · lost 2

Hy3won 2 · lost 2

Kimi K2.6won 2 · lost 2

Mimo V2.5 Prowon 2 · lost 2

Claude Sonnet 4.6won 2 · lost 2

GPT-5.5 Instantwon 2 · lost 2

Gemini 3.6 Flashwon 2 · lost 2

Muse Spark 1.1won 2 · lost 2

DeepSeek V4 Flashwon 1 · lost 3

GPT-6 Lunawon 1 · lost 3

Claude Sonnet 5won 1 · lost 3

GLM-5.3 Flashwon 1 · lost 3

Qwen3.7 Maxwon 1 · lost 3

GLM-5.2won 1 · lost 3

Gemini 3.5 Flashwon 1 · lost 3

Claude Sonnet 4won 0 · lost 4

Grok 4 Fastwon 0 · lost 4

Gemini 2.5 Flashwon 0 · lost 4

GLM-4.5won 0 · lost 4

Grok 3won 0 · lost 4

Grok 4won 0 · lost 4

DeepSeek V3.1 Terminuswon 0 · lost 4

DeepSeek R1won 0 · lost 4

Qwen3 235B A22B Instructwon 0 · lost 4

Qwen3 Maxwon 0 · lost 4

Claude Opus 4won 0 · lost 4

O3won 0 · lost 4

Gemini 3.1 Flash Litewon 0 · lost 4

GPT-5won 0 · lost 4

GPT-5.2won 0 · lost 4

Qwen3.8 27Bwon 0 · lost 4

Grok 4.7won 0 · lost 4

Qwen3.5 397B A17Bwon 0 · lost 4

ChatGPT-4owon 0 · lost 4

Gemini 2.5 Prowon 0 · lost 4

Kimi K2.5won 0 · lost 4

Gemma 4 31Bwon 0 · lost 4

Grok 4.6won 0 · lost 4

GPT-6 Solwon 0 · lost 4

GLM-5won 0 · lost 4

Claude Sonnet 4.5won 0 · lost 4

DeepSeek V4 Prowon 0 · lost 4

Grok 4.5won 0 · lost 4

GPT-5.6 Terrawon 0 · lost 4

Grok 4.20won 0 · lost 4

Claude Opus 4.5won 0 · lost 4

GPT-5.4won 0 · lost 4

DeepSeek V4.1 Flashwon 0 · lost 4

GPT-6 Astrawon 0 · lost 4

Qwen3.8 Maxwon 0 · lost 4

Mimo V2.6 Prowon 0 · lost 4

GLM-5.3won 0 · lost 4

Claude Opus 4.8won 0 · lost 4

GPT-5.5won 0 · lost 4

GPT-5.6 Solwon 0 · lost 4

Gemini 3 Prowon 0 · lost 4

Gemini 3.1 Prowon 0 · lost 4

Gemini 3.7 Flashwon 0 · lost 4

Kimi K3won 0 · lost 4

Claude Opus 5won 0 · lost 4

Gemini 3.8 Flashwon 0 · lost 4

Muse Spark 1.3won 0 · lost 4

Muse Spark 1.2won 0 · lost 4

Claude Fable 5.1won 0 · lost 4

Claude Opus 4.7won 0 · lost 4

Claude Fable 5won 0 · lost 4

Claude Opus 4.6won 0 · lost 4

Claude Opus 5.5won 0 · lost 4

§ 3 · Sources

Where the numbers come from

2 publications, 2 figures. Every one links to the page it was read from.

LMArena Text ↗1 measureread 2026-09-27

LMArena Text 1399

Kagi LLM Benchmark ↗1 measureread 2026-09-27

Kagi LLM Benchmark 54.4%

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