Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct vs Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct Comparison

Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

No common benchmarks found

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct don't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

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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NVIDIA
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct
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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Model Size

Parameter count comparison

10.0B diff

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct has 10.0B more parameters than Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct, making it 14.3% larger.

NVIDIA
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct
70.0Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
80.0Bparameters
70.0B
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct
80.0B
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

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).

NVIDIA
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Input65,536 tokens
Output65,536 tokens
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License

Usage and distribution terms

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct is licensed under Llama 3.1 Community 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.

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct

Llama 3.1 Community License

Open weights

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct was released on 2024-10-01, while Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct was released on 2025-09-10.

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is 11 months newer than Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct.

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct

Oct 1, 2024

1.5 years ago

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Sep 10, 2025

6 months ago

11mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2023-12-01, while Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct's training data extends to 2023-12-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct's cutoff date.

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct

Dec 2023

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

Larger context window (65,536 tokens)

Detailed Comparison