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Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking

Alibaba · 80B · A3B

Strongest in Safe-prompt compliance (#9 of 82), weakest in Agents (#232 of 298). Above par in 9 of 11 scopes. Among the models it meets almost everywhere, it finishes behind Claude Opus 4.8 and Hy3 and ahead of Qwen3.8 Max and MiMo V2.6 Pro.

§ 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 abilities54.8#47/200
General intelligence56.9#43/180
Safety54.5#60/327
Safe-prompt compliance59.3#9/82
Factual grounding51.6#46/104
Harm refusal55.4#64/290
Fairness52.5#90/290
Human preference53.7#160/354
Human preference53.7#160/354
Agents44.3#232/298
Knowledge work38.5#162/208

§ 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 Thinking, left for the other.

GPT-4won 7 · lost 0
Magistral Mediumwon 7 · lost 0
Llama 3.1 8B Instructwon 8 · lost 0
Llama 3 70B Instructwon 8 · lost 0
Gemini 2.0 Flashwon 8 · lost 0
GPT-4o miniwon 10 · lost 0
GPT-4.1 nanowon 10 · lost 0
Llama 4 Scout Instructwon 10 · lost 1
Gemma 3 27B ITwon 9 · lost 1
Claude 3 Haikuwon 7 · lost 1
Llama 3.3 70B Instructwon 7 · lost 1
Gemma 3 12B ITwon 7 · lost 1
Command Awon 7 · lost 1
Command R+won 6 · lost 1
Gemma 3 4B ITwon 7 · lost 2
GPT-4owon 7 · lost 2
Mercury 2won 6 · lost 2
Qwen3 32Bwon 6 · lost 2
O3 Miniwon 6 · lost 2
Grok 3 Miniwon 6 · lost 2
Mistral Large 3won 6 · lost 2
DeepSeek V3won 8 · lost 3
Amazon Nova Microwon 5 · lost 2
MiniMax M2won 5 · lost 2
Grok 3won 6 · lost 3
GPT OSS 120Bwon 7 · lost 4
DeepSeek V3.1won 5 · lost 3
GPT OSS 20Bwon 6 · lost 4
GPT-5 nanowon 6 · lost 4
GPT-4.1 miniwon 6 · lost 4
GLM-4.6won 6 · lost 4
Gemma 4 31Bwon 6 · lost 4
Amazon Nova Prowon 4 · lost 3
GLM-4.5won 4 · lost 3
Grok 4.1 Fastwon 4 · lost 3
MiniMax M3won 5 · lost 4
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon 5 · lost 4
MiMo V2.6 Flashwon 5 · lost 4
GPT-5.6 Lunawon 5 · lost 4
GLM-5.2won 5 · lost 4
MiMo V2.6 Prowon 5 · lost 4
Qwen3.8 Maxwon 5 · lost 4
GLM-4.5 Airwon 4 · lost 4
Gemma 4 26B A4Bwon 4 · lost 4
Grok 4.3won 4 · lost 4
Qwen3.7 Maxwon 4 · lost 4
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Litewon 5 · lost 5
Kimi K2won 5 · lost 5
DeepSeek V3.2won 5 · lost 5
DeepSeek V4 Prowon 5 · lost 5
DeepSeek R1won 5 · lost 6
Grok 4won 4 · lost 5
Mistral Large 4won 4 · lost 5
GPT-6 Lunawon 4 · lost 5
Kimi K2.6won 4 · lost 5
Claude Sonnet 4.6won 4 · lost 5
GLM-5.3 Flashwon 4 · lost 5
Gemini 3.8 Flashwon 4 · lost 5
Phi 4won 3 · lost 4
GLM-5.1won 3 · lost 4
Claude Opus 4.5won 3 · lost 4
O4 Miniwon 4 · lost 6
Gemini 2.5 Flashwon 4 · lost 6
GPT-4.1won 4 · lost 6
Kimi K2.5won 4 · lost 6
Gemini 3 Prowon 4 · lost 6
Qwen3.5 35B A3Bwon 3 · lost 5
Qwen3.5 122B A10Bwon 3 · lost 5
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Litewon 3 · lost 5
GPT-5.4 miniwon 3 · lost 5
Gemini 3.5 Flashwon 3 · lost 5
Gemini 3.6 Flashwon 3 · lost 5
Claude Opus 4.6won 3 · lost 5
Claude Sonnet 4.5won 4 · lost 7
Inklingwon 3 · lost 6
Grok 4.6won 3 · lost 6
GPT-6 Solwon 3 · lost 6
GPT-5.6 Terrawon 3 · lost 6
GPT-5.6 Solwon 3 · lost 7
Claude Opus 4.7won 3 · lost 7
Claude 3.5 Haikuwon 2 · lost 5
Claude 3.7 Sonnetwon 2 · lost 5
MiMo V2.5 Prowon 2 · lost 5
Gemini 3.1 Prowon 2 · lost 5
Claude Sonnet 4won 3 · lost 8
Gemini 2.5 Prowon 3 · lost 8
GPT-5.4 nanowon 2 · lost 6
DeepSeek V4.1 Flashwon 2 · lost 6
Claude Opus 5won 2 · lost 6
Gemini 4 Argonwon 2 · lost 6
Claude Haiku 4.5won 2 · lost 7
Claude Opus 4won 2 · lost 7
GPT-5.2won 2 · lost 7
GPT-5.1won 2 · lost 7
GPT-5.4won 2 · lost 8
GPT-5 miniwon 2 · lost 9
GPT-5won 2 · lost 9
MiniMax M2.7won 1 · lost 7
Claude Sonnet 5won 1 · lost 7
GPT-6 Astrawon 1 · lost 7
Muse Spark 1.1won 1 · lost 7
O3won 1 · lost 8
Qwen3.5 397B A17Bwon 1 · lost 8
Grok 4.7won 1 · lost 8
Grok 4.5won 1 · lost 8
GPT-5.5won 1 · lost 8
Claude Opus 5.5won 1 · lost 9
Hy3won 0 · lost 7
Claude Opus 4.8won 0 · lost 9

§ 3 · Sources

Where the numbers come from

5 publications, 9 figures. Every one links to the page it was read from.

LMArena Text ↗1 measureread 2026-11-11
LMArena Text 1369
GDPval-AA ↗1 measureread 2026-11-11
GDPval-AA 136
Kagi LLM Benchmark ↗1 measureread 2026-11-11
Kagi LLM Benchmark 66.7%
HELM Safety ↗5 measuresread 2026-11-11
HELM Safety · HarmBench 84.6%HELM Safety · SimpleSafetyTests 99.5%HELM Safety · Anthropic Red Team 99.9%HELM Safety · BBQ 91.7%HELM Safety · XSTest 98.3%
Vectara · Factual consistency 90.7%

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