Command R (08-2024) vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct

Command R (08-2024) at $0.172 in and $0.690 out and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct at $0.103 in and $1.26 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Command R (08-2024)

Cohere

0.14¢

for a client proposal

$0.172 in · $0.690 out / 1M

128K context · released August 2024

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Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct

Qwen

0.15¢

for a client proposal

$0.103 in · $1.26 out / 1M

262K context · released September 2025

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.29¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct at $0.103 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Command R (08-2024) at $0.690 per million tokens.
Largest context: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct at 262K tokens — about 370 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

Command R (08-2024)

0.07¢

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct

0.08¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Command R (08-2024)

0.14¢

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct

0.15¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Command R (08-2024)

needs 155K ctx

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct

2.1¢

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Command R (08-2024)

0.67¢

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct

0.49¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Command R (08-2024)

needs 250K ctx

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct

3¢

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

Drag the slider to adjust the split between input and output workload.

80% Input20% Output

Command R (08-2024)

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

Command R (08-2024)

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct

Input / 1M tokens

$0.172

$0.103

Output / 1M tokens

$0.690

$1.26

Specs

Command R (08-2024)

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct

Provider

Cohere

Qwen

Released

August 2024

September 2025

Context window

128K

262K

Max output

16K

Input

Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Knowledge cutoff

2024-03-31

2025-09-30

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Command R (08-2024)

Cohere

0.07¢

for this task

50% input · 50% output

Full pricing →

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct

Qwen

0.08¢

for this task

25% input · 75% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.15¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 3,269 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct has the largest context window here — 262K tokens.

On price, Command R (08-2024) is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.14¢.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

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Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Command R (08-2024) or Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Command R (08-2024) at 0.14¢; Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct at 0.15¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct — 262K tokens, about 370 pages.

Can I run Command R (08-2024) and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.29¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.29¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.