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Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct vs Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct leads the LLM Stats Score 20.1 to 6.5.

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct leads the overall LLM Stats Score 20.1 to 6.5, ranking #203 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct

  • you are already invested in the Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team ecosystem

Choose Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

  • overall performance matters — it scores 20.1 and ranks #203 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 2025

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
6.5
#298
20.1
#203
Reasoning
3.0
#309
19.9
#198
Agents
-3.2
#184
8.2
#139
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
—
—
Input price
— / M
$0.09 / M
Output price
— / M
$1.10 / M
Context window
—
262,144

Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

1 shared
Index
Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Math
3.2#289
20.6#157
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

32 reported for Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct · 24 for Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

No common benchmarks found

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instructdon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Model Size

Parameter count comparison

71.7B diff

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct has 71.7B more parameters than Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct, making it 865.0% larger.

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct
8.3Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
80.0Bparameters
8.3B
Qwen2.5 VL 7B 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 (262,144 tokens). Only Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct specifies output context (262,144 tokens).

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Input262,144 tokens
Output262,144 tokens
Wed Sep 23 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct supports multimodal inputs, whereas Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct does not.

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Both models are licensed under Apache 2.0.

Both models share the same licensing terms, providing consistent usage rights.

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct was released on 2025-01-26, while Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct was released on 2025-09-10.

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is 8 months newer than Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct.

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct

Jan 26, 2025

1.7 years ago

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Sep 10, 2025

1.0 years ago

7mo 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 Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct
✓ Preferred
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
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FAQ

Common questions about Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct vs Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct.

Which is better, Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct or Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct?

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct leads the LLM Stats Score 20.1 to 6.5. Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct is made by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is made by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct compare to Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct in benchmarks?

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct scores DocVQA: 95.7%, Android Control Low_EM: 91.4%, MobileMiniWob++_SR: 91.4%, ChartQA: 87.3%, OCRBench: 86.4%. 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%.

What are the context window sizes for Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct?

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct supports an unknown number of tokens and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct supports 262K tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (6.5 vs 20.1), multimodal support (yes vs no). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

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