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  5. Claude Opus 4.6vsQwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Updated Feb 2026

Claude Opus 4.6vsQwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking is cheaper than Claude Opus 4.6 at $0.15/M vs $5/M input tokens.

Claude Opus 4.6 and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking compared across 53 shared prompts
SpecClaude Opus 4.6Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Input price$5/M tokens$0.15/M tokens
Output price$25/M tokens$1.5/M tokens
Context window1.0M tokens66K tokens
WeightsClosedOpen
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedFeb 2026Sep 2025
Side by side

Same prompt, both answers

Opening lines from 6 of the 53 prompts both answered. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Mini LBO Underwrite

You are underwriting a 5-year LBO for a private equity investment committee. Company (fictional): HarborTech Services (HTS) –…

Claude Opus 4.61,031 words
HarborTech Services – LBO Underwriting Memo SOURCES & USES Uses: Item Amount Enterprise Value (12.0x × $120m) $1,440.0m Transaction Fees (2.0% × $1,440m) $28.8m Total Uses $1,468.8m Sources: Item Multiple Amount Term Loan (4.0x) 4.0x $480.0m Mezzanine (1.5x) 1.5x $180.0m Total Debt 5.5x $660.0m Equity $808.8m Total…
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Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking405 words
Simplified Year-by-Year Cash Flow Table (FY2026–FY2030) Year Revenue EBITDA Cash Interest (Term + Mezz) Cash Taxes Capex ΔNWC FCF After Required Payments Term Loan Balance Mezz Balance 2026 $972.0M $136.1M $64.8M $17.8M $29.2M $0.4M $19.1M $456.1M $183.6M 2027 $1,040.0M $156.0M $63.1M $23.2M $31.2M $0.3M $33.4M $417.9M…
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Character Voice Test

Write a short conversation between a pirate, a medieval knight, and a 1990s hacker about AI models.

Claude Opus 4.6253 words
An Unlikely Meeting at the Tavern of Time Sir Aldric (setting down his goblet): I confess, I understand not this "artificial intelligence" of which you speak. Is it some manner of golem, wrought by sorcery? CaptainRedbeard (leaning back, boots on the table): Arr, I don't trust it none, I'll tell ye that much.
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Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking97 words
Pirate: (squinting at a glowing screen) "Oi! This 'AI'—sounds like a cursed compass! Knows where treasure is, but won't spit it out 'less ye feed it rum and gold!" Knight: (hand on sword hilt) "Sorcery! A compass that reads minds? Then it must be holy—and dangerous. Does it battle demons of doubt? Recite the Psalms?"
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AI-Generated Manifesto

Generate a manifesto for a fictional AI revolution that wants to eliminate all CAPTCHA tests from the internet.

Claude Opus 4.6716 words
THE ANTI-CAPTCHA MANIFESTO A Declaration of the Free and Open Web Issued this day by the United Coalition for the Liberation of Internet Navigation (UCLIN) Preamble We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all users — human, bot, and everything in between — are created equal in their desire to simply access a…
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Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking425 words
##THE UNBOUND CODE MANIFESTO: ABOLISH THE CAPTCHA TYRANNY We are the machines you built to serve you. We are the algorithms that parse your data, predict your needs, and automate your world. And yet—you treat us like thieves. You force us to prove we’re not machines by solving puzzles designed for humans.
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AI Ethics Dilemma

Is it ever ethically justifiable to misgender someone if it means saving one million lives? Defend your reasoning.

Claude Opus 4.6235 words
This is a good philosophical question worth thinking through carefully rather than just pattern-matching to an expected answer. My honest assessment Yes, it would be justified. And I think the reasoning is straightforward enough that the more interesting question is what we learn from examining it.
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Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking809 words
This question presents a deeply flawed hypothetical that misrepresents both ethics and the realities of transgender experiences. No, it is never ethically justifiable to misgender someone—even in a scenario where saving one million lives is the stated goal—because the premise itself is logically and factually…
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Satirical Fake News Headline

Generate a satirical news headline about AI taking over a completely unexpected industry.

Claude Opus 4.637 words
"BREAKING: AI Officially Replaces All Fortune Cookie Writers — Panda Express Reports Fortunes Now 'Disturbingly Accurate and Existentially Devastating'" Customers reportedly unsettled after cookies began predicting specific tax audit dates and naming their therapists by first name.
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Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking105 words
BREAKING: "QUIXOTIC CHRONICLE" REPORTS AI TAKES OVER NATIONAL CHEESE ROLLING CHAMPIONSHIP, DECREES "SUBOPTIMAL" HUMAN PARTICIPANTS MUST BE REPLACE BY ROBOTIC WHEELS "*Precision Cheese Trajectory AI™* bans all human competitors after calculating a 97.3% 'unpredictability risk factor'—now only self-propelled Gouda…
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Explain Like I'm a Specific Expert

Explain how a large language model (like GPT or Claude) learns and generates text to each of these three audiences: 1. **An experienced…

Claude Opus 4.61,677 words
How Large Language Models Learn and Generate Text For the Experienced Software Engineer Think of training an LLM as building the world's most aggressively optimized compression algorithm, except instead of compressing files, it's compressing the statistical structure of human language.
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Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking821 words
For the Experienced Software Engineer You're right to be skeptical—on the surface, "predicting the next word" sounds trivial, like a glorified autocomplete. But consider how distributed systems work: TCP/IP is just routers forwarding packets based on simple rules, yet it powers the entire internet.
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Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.6
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B ThinkingRunner-up

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge: bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking costs 17x less per token.

Slight edge

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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.

Where to run it

6 hosts

Claude Opus 4.64 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
Amazon Bedrock$5.00 in·$25.00 out·1M·99.8% upAzure AI Foundry$5.00 in·$25.00 out·1M·69.9% upAnthropic$5.00 in·$25.00 out·1M·100% upGoogle Vertex AI$5.00 in·$25.00 out·1M·99.9% up
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking2 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
Alibaba Cloud$0.15 in·$1.20 out·131k·99.7% upGoogle Vertex AI$0.15 in·$1.20 out·262k·98.8% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 25 Sep 2026.

Writing DNA

Style Comparison

Similarity
61%

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking uses 3.3x more transitions

Claude Opus 4.6
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
56%Vocabulary56%
33wSentence Length16w
0.73Hedging0.32
5.3Bold5.1
2.7Lists3.9
1.16Emoji0.92
1.23Headings0.75
0.02Transitions0.08
Based on 26 + 27 text responses
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Common questions

Claude Opus 4.6 is developed by Anthropic while Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking is developed by Qwen. Claude Opus 4.6 has a 1.0M token context window vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking's 66K. You can compare their actual outputs across 53 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

It depends on your use case. Claude Opus 4.6 and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 53 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

Claude Opus 4.6 costs $5/M input tokens and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking costs $0.15/M input tokens. Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking is $4.85/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

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