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Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking vs o4 Mini
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Winner summary
o4 Mini wins on 5/5 benchmarks
o4 Mini wins 5 of 5 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge · language · math.
Category leads
knowledge·o4 Minilanguage·o4 Minimath·o4 Minireasoning·o4 Mini
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
#34 by perf·no signal
o4 Mini
#81 by perf·#13 by attention
Best value
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
7.3x better value than o4 Mini
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
140.4 pts/$
$0.44/M
o4 Mini
19.3 pts/$
$2.75/M
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Head to head
5 benchmarks · 2 models
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinkingo4 Mini
HELM · GPQA
o4 Mini leads by +10.5
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
63.0
o4 Mini
73.5
HELM · IFEval
o4 Mini leads by +11.9
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
81.0
o4 Mini
92.9
HELM · MMLU-Pro
o4 Mini leads by +3.4
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
78.6
o4 Mini
82.0
HELM · Omni-MATH
o4 Mini leads by +25.3
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
46.7
o4 Mini
72.0
HELM · WildBench
o4 Mini leads by +4.7
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
80.7
o4 Mini
85.4
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking | o4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
HELM · GPQA | 63.0 | 73.5 |
HELM · IFEval | 81.0 | 92.9 |
HELM · MMLU-Pro | 78.6 | 82.0 |
HELM · Omni-MATH | 46.7 | 72.0 |
HELM · WildBench | 80.7 | 85.4 |
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 | |
| $1.10 | $4.40 | 200K tokens (~100 books) | $19.25 |
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