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Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking vs GPT-5.1
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Winner summary
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking wins on 3/6 benchmarks
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking wins 3 of 6 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge · math.
Category leads
arena·GPT-5.1knowledge·Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinkinglanguage·GPT-5.1math·Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinkingreasoning·GPT-5.1
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
#34 by perf·no signal
GPT-5.1
#97 by perf·no signal
Best value
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
15.9x better value than GPT-5.1
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
140.4 pts/$
$0.44/M
GPT-5.1
8.8 pts/$
$5.63/M
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Head to head
6 benchmarks · 2 models
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B ThinkingGPT-5.1
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
GPT-5.1 leads by +69.5
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
1369.0
GPT-5.1
1438.5
HELM · GPQA
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking leads by +18.8
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
63.0
GPT-5.1
44.2
HELM · IFEval
GPT-5.1 leads by +12.5
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
81.0
GPT-5.1
93.5
HELM · MMLU-Pro
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking leads by +20.7
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
78.6
GPT-5.1
57.9
HELM · Omni-MATH
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking leads by +0.3
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
46.7
GPT-5.1
46.4
HELM · WildBench
GPT-5.1 leads by +5.6
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
80.7
GPT-5.1
86.3
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking | GPT-5.1 |
|---|---|---|
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall | 1369.0 | 1438.5 |
HELM · GPQA | 63.0 | 44.2 |
HELM · IFEval | 81.0 | 93.5 |
HELM · MMLU-Pro | 78.6 | 57.9 |
HELM · Omni-MATH | 46.7 | 46.4 |
HELM · WildBench | 80.7 | 86.3 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0.10 | $0.78 | 131K tokens (~66 books) | $2.68 | |
| $1.25 | $10.00 | 400K tokens (~200 books) | $34.38 |
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