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Grok 3 Beta vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking

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Winner summary

Grok 3 Beta wins 4 of 5 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge · language · reasoning.

Category leads
knowledge·Grok 3 Betalanguage·Grok 3 Betamath·Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinkingreasoning·Grok 3 Beta
Hype vs Reality
Grok 3 Beta
#19 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
#40 by perf·#2 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
11.8x better value than Grok 3 Beta
Grok 3 Beta
7.7 pts/$
$9.00/M
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
91.3 pts/$
$0.67/M
Vendor risk
xAI logo
xAI
$250.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
Grok 3 BetaQwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
HELM · GPQA
Grok 3 Beta leads by +2.0
Grok 3 Beta
65.0
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
63.0
HELM · IFEval
Grok 3 Beta leads by +7.4
Grok 3 Beta
88.4
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
81.0
HELM · MMLU-Pro
Grok 3 Beta leads by +0.2
Grok 3 Beta
78.8
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
78.6
HELM · Omni-MATH
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking leads by +0.3
Grok 3 Beta
46.4
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
46.7
HELM · WildBench
Grok 3 Beta leads by +4.2
Grok 3 Beta
84.9
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
80.7
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGrok 3 BetaQwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
HELM · GPQA
65.063.0
HELM · IFEval
88.481.0
HELM · MMLU-Pro
78.878.6
HELM · Omni-MATH
46.446.7
HELM · WildBench
84.980.7
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
xAI logoGrok 3 Beta$3.00$15.00131K tokens (~66 books)$60.00
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking$0.15$1.20262K tokens (~131 books)$4.13