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o3 Mini High vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking

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Winner summary

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking wins 1 of 1 shared benchmarks. Leads in arena.

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arena·Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Hype vs Reality
o3 Mini High
#42 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
#34 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
6.4x better value than o3 Mini High
o3 Mini High
22.0 pts/$
$2.75/M
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
140.4 pts/$
$0.44/M
Vendor risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
o3 Mini HighQwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking leads by +5.8
o3 Mini High
1363.2
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
1369.0
Full benchmark table
Benchmarko3 Mini HighQwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1363.21369.0
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logoo3 Mini High$1.10$4.40200K tokens (~100 books)$19.25
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking$0.10$0.78131K tokens (~66 books)$2.68