Claude 3 Opus vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
Compare Claude 3 Opus by Anthropic against Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct by Qwen, context windows of 200K vs 66K, tested across 12 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude 3 Opus
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B InstructRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude 3 Opus has the edge — bigger model tier, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct is 50x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude 3 Opus
Input
$15.00
Output
$75.00
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
Input
$0.15
100× cheaper
Output
$1.50
50× cheaper
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct is cheaper on both — 100× input, 50× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
50%
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct uses 576.3x more bold
Claude 3 Opus
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
54%Vocabulary52%
14wSentence Length16w
0.48Hedging0.20
0.0Bold5.8
3.0Lists3.7
0.00Emoji0.59
0.00Headings0.96
0.06Transitions0.05
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