Qwen: Qwen3 Max vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Compare Qwen: Qwen3 Max and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking, both from Qwen, in 6 community votes, qwen: qwen3 max and qwen3 next 80b a3b thinking are closely matched, context windows of 256K vs 66K, tested across 54 shared challenges. Updated April 2026.
Which is better, Qwen: Qwen3 Max or Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking?
Qwen: Qwen3 Max and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking are closely matched based on 6 community votes. Qwen: Qwen3 Max costs $1.2/M input tokens vs $0.15/M for Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking. Context windows: 256K vs 66K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between Qwen: Qwen3 Max and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Qwen: Qwen3 Max is made by qwen while Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking is from qwen. Qwen: Qwen3 Max has a 256K token context window compared to Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking's 66K. On pricing, Qwen: Qwen3 Max costs $1.2/M input tokens vs $0.15/M for Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking. In community voting, In 6 community votes, Qwen: Qwen3 Max and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking are closely matched.
In 6 community votes, Qwen: Qwen3 Max and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking are closely matched. Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking leads in Reasoning. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 6+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Votes are tied. Qwen: Qwen3 Max has a 256K context window vs 66K — handles longer documents.
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking particularly excels in Reasoning. Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking is 4.0x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
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