Claude Opus 4.6 vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Compare Claude Opus 4.6 by Anthropic against Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking by Qwen, context windows of 1.0M vs 66K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4.6
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B ThinkingRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking is 17x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4.6
Input
$5.00
Output
$25.00
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Input
$0.15
33× cheaper
Output
$1.50
17× cheaper
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking is cheaper on both — 33× input, 17× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
48%
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking uses 3.6x more transitions
Claude Opus 4.6
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
53%Vocabulary54%
35wSentence Length16w
0.68Hedging0.31
5.2Bold6.0
2.9Lists4.5
0.21Emoji0.58
1.34Headings0.88
0.03Transitions0.10
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Research
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