Model Comparison

Phi 4 Reasoning Plus vs Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct shows notably better performance in the majority of benchmarks.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

4 benchmarks

Phi 4 Reasoning Plus outperforms in 1 benchmarks (AIME 2025), while Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is better at 3 benchmarks (GPQA, IFEval, MMLU-Pro).

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct shows notably better performance in the majority of 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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Microsoft
Phi 4 Reasoning Plus
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

66.0B diff

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct has 66.0B more parameters than Phi 4 Reasoning Plus, making it 471.4% larger.

Microsoft
Phi 4 Reasoning Plus
14.0Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
80.0Bparameters
14.0B
Phi 4 Reasoning Plus
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).

Microsoft
Phi 4 Reasoning Plus
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

Phi 4 Reasoning Plus is licensed under MIT, 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.

Phi 4 Reasoning Plus

MIT

Open weights

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Phi 4 Reasoning Plus was released on 2025-04-30, while Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct was released on 2025-09-10.

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is 4 months newer than Phi 4 Reasoning Plus.

Phi 4 Reasoning Plus

Apr 30, 2025

11 months ago

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Sep 10, 2025

7 months ago

4mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Phi 4 Reasoning Plus has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2025-03-01, while Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Phi 4 Reasoning Plus's training data extends to 2025-03-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct's cutoff date.

Phi 4 Reasoning Plus

Mar 2025

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

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Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

Microsoft
Higher AIME 2025 score (78.0% vs 69.5%)
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Larger context window (65,536 tokens)
Higher GPQA score (72.9% vs 68.9%)
Higher IFEval score (87.6% vs 84.9%)
Higher MMLU-Pro score (80.6% vs 76.0%)

Detailed Comparison

AI Model Comparison Table
Feature
Microsoft
Phi 4 Reasoning Plus
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

FAQ

Common questions about Phi 4 Reasoning Plus vs Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct shows notably better performance in the majority of benchmarks. Phi 4 Reasoning Plus is made by Microsoft 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.
Phi 4 Reasoning Plus scores FlenQA: 97.9%, HumanEval+: 92.3%, IFEval: 84.9%, OmniMath: 81.9%, AIME 2024: 81.3%. 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%.
Phi 4 Reasoning Plus 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 licensing (MIT vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.
Phi 4 Reasoning Plus is developed by Microsoft and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.