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phi-3-mini 3.8B vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · phi-3-mini 3.8B · Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
phi-3-mini 3.8B
#86 by perf·#20 by attention
UNDERRATED
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
#40 by perf·#2 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
phi-3-mini 3.8B
n/a
no price
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
91.3 pts/$
$0.67/M
Vendor risk
Microsoft logo
Microsoft
$3.84T·Big Tech
Low risk
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Microsoft logophi-3-mini 3.8B————
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking$0.15$1.20262K tokens (~131 books)$4.13