Claude Sonnet 4 vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
Compare Claude Sonnet 4 by Anthropic against Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct by Qwen, context windows of 200K vs 66K, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Sonnet 4
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
No community votes yet. On paper, these are closely matched - try both with your actual task to see which fits your workflow.
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct is 10x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Sonnet 4
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
Input
$0.15
20× cheaper
Output
$1.50
10× cheaper
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct is cheaper on both — 20× input, 10× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
40%
Claude Sonnet 4 uses 6.9x more sentence length
Claude Sonnet 4
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
62%Vocabulary52%
111wSentence Length16w
0.40Hedging0.20
5.0Bold5.8
9.3Lists3.7
0.88Emoji0.59
2.16Headings0.96
0.33Transitions0.05
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