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Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

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

Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking · Qwen2.5 7B Instruct are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
#34 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
#169 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
3.6x better value than Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
140.4 pts/$
$0.44/M
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
502.9 pts/$
$0.07/M
Vendor risk
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking$0.10$0.78131K tokens (~66 books)$2.68
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen2.5 7B Instruct$0.04$0.1033K tokens (~16 books)$0.55