Model Comparison

Grok-4 Heavy vs Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Grok-4 Heavy significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

3 benchmarks

Grok-4 Heavy outperforms in 3 benchmarks (AIME 2025, GPQA, HMMT25), while Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is better at 0 benchmarks.

Grok-4 Heavy significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Cost data unavailable.

Lowest available price from all providers
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xAI
Grok-4 Heavy
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
Best providerUnknown Organization
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Input tokens$0.15
Output tokens$1.50
Best providerNovita
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Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct specifies input context (65,536 tokens). Only Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct specifies output context (65,536 tokens).

xAI
Grok-4 Heavy
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Input65,536 tokens
Output65,536 tokens
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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Grok-4 Heavy supports multimodal inputs, whereas Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct does not.

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

Grok-4 Heavy

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Grok-4 Heavy is licensed under a proprietary license, while Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct uses Apache 2.0.

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

Grok-4 Heavy

Proprietary

Closed source

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct was released on 2025-09-10, while Grok-4 Heavy's release date is not specified.

We can confirm Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct's release timeline, but cannot make a direct age comparison without Grok-4 Heavy's release date.

Grok-4 Heavy

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Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Sep 10, 2025

7 months ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Grok-4 Heavy has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2024-12-31, while Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Grok-4 Heavy's training data extends to 2024-12-31, but cannot make a direct comparison without Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct's cutoff date.

Grok-4 Heavy

Dec 2024

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

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Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

xAI
Supports multimodal inputs
Higher AIME 2025 score (100.0% vs 69.5%)
Higher GPQA score (88.4% vs 72.9%)
Higher HMMT25 score (96.7% vs 54.1%)
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Larger context window (65,536 tokens)
Has open weights

Detailed Comparison

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Feature
xAI
Grok-4 Heavy
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

FAQ

Common questions about Grok-4 Heavy vs Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Grok-4 Heavy significantly outperforms across most benchmarks. Grok-4 Heavy is made by xAI and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is made by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their benchmark scores, pricing, and capabilities above.
Grok-4 Heavy scores AIME 2025: 100.0%, HMMT25: 96.7%, GPQA: 88.4%, LiveCodeBench: 79.4%, USAMO25: 61.9%. Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct scores MMLU-Redux: 90.9%, MultiPL-E: 87.8%, IFEval: 87.6%, WritingBench: 87.3%, Creative Writing v3: 85.3%.
Grok-4 Heavy supports an unknown number of tokens and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct supports 66K tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.
Key differences include multimodal support (yes vs no), licensing (Proprietary vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.
Grok-4 Heavy is developed by xAI and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.