Qwen3 Coder Next vs Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Compare Qwen3 Coder Next and Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B, both from Qwen, in 8 community votes, qwen3 coder next wins 57% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 262K vs 262K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Reasoning: Qwen3 Coder Next wins 75% of votes
Image Generation: Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B wins 100% of votes
Our Verdict
Qwen3 Coder NextWinner
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17BRunner-up
Qwen3 Coder Next has the edge overall. In 8 blind votes, Qwen3 Coder Next wins 57% of the time.
Pick Qwen3 Coder Next for Reasoning. Pick Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B for Image Generation.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Qwen3 Coder Next
Input
$0.20
3.0× cheaper
Output
$1.50
2.4× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Input
$0.60
Output
$3.60
Qwen3 Coder Next is cheaper on both — 3.0× input, 2.4× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
44%
Qwen3 Coder Next uses 3.8x more emoji
Qwen3 Coder Next
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
58%Vocabulary54%
19wSentence Length14w
0.29Hedging0.39
6.3Bold6.9
4.0Lists4.2
0.86Emoji0.23
0.92Headings0.93
0.07Transitions0.17
Based on 21 + 23 text responses
Research
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