Llama 4 Scout vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
Compare Llama 4 Scout by Meta AI against Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct by Qwen, in 4 community votes, qwen3 next 80b a3b instruct wins 75% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 10.0M vs 66K, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Web Design: Llama 4 Scout and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct are tied
Image Generation: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct wins 100% of votes
Our Verdict
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B InstructWinner
Llama 4 ScoutRunner-up
Pick Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct. In 4 blind votes, Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct wins 75% of the time. That's not luck.
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct particularly excels in Image Generation. Llama 4 Scout is 3.0x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Clear winner
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Llama 4 Scout
Input
$0.25
Output
$0.50
3.0× cheaper
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
Input
$0.15
1.7× cheaper
Output
$1.50
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct wins input (1.7× cheaper)·Llama 4 Scout wins output (3.0× cheaper)
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
39%
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct uses 58.9x more emoji
Llama 4 Scout
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
43%Vocabulary52%
42wSentence Length16w
0.81Hedging0.20
4.1Bold5.8
7.3Lists3.7
0.00Emoji0.59
0.30Headings0.96
0.04Transitions0.05
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What we learned reading every model
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