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Claude Sonnet 4 vs Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Comparing Claude Sonnet 4 and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

Anthropic · Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude Sonnet 4 and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base trade strengths across price, capabilities, and technical limits. The better choice depends on the workload.

Based on current benchmark, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Claude Sonnet 4

  • you want predictable pricing at $3.00/M input and $15.00/M output

Choose Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 2025
  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Benchmark wins
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Input price
$3.00 / M
— / M
Output price
$15.00 / M
— / M
Context window
200,000
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Released
May 2025
Sep 2025
License
Proprietary
Apache 2.0

Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

No common benchmarks found

Claude Sonnet 4 and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Basedon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Arena Performance

Playground indexes and blind preference scores

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Claude Sonnet 4 specifies input context (200,000 tokens). Only Claude Sonnet 4 specifies output context (64,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4
Input200,000 tokens
Output64,000 tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Wed Aug 26 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Claude Sonnet 4 supports multimodal inputs, whereas Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base does not.

Claude Sonnet 4 can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Claude Sonnet 4

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude Sonnet 4 is licensed under a proprietary license, while Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base uses Apache 2.0.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Claude Sonnet 4

Proprietary

Closed source

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude Sonnet 4 was released on 2025-05-22, while Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base was released on 2025-09-10.

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base is 4 months newer than Claude Sonnet 4.

Claude Sonnet 4

May 22, 2025

1.3 years ago

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Sep 10, 2025

11 months ago

3mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Claude Sonnet 4 and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Claude Sonnet 4
✓ Preferred
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base
Open in Playground

FAQ

Common questions about Claude Sonnet 4 vs Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base.

Which is better, Claude Sonnet 4 or Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base?

Claude Sonnet 4 (Anthropic) and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base (Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team) each have strengths in different areas. Compare their benchmark scores, pricing, context windows, and capabilities above to determine which fits your needs.

How does Claude Sonnet 4 compare to Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base in benchmarks?

Claude Sonnet 4 scores MMMLU: 86.5%, TAU-bench Retail: 80.5%, GPQA: 75.4%, MMMU: 74.4%, SWE-Bench Verified: 72.7%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude Sonnet 4 and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base?

Claude Sonnet 4 supports 200K tokens and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Claude Sonnet 4 and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base?

Key differences include multimodal support (yes vs no), licensing (Proprietary vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude Sonnet 4 and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base?

Claude Sonnet 4 is developed by Anthropic and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

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