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// 78d agoBENCHMARK RESULT
Qwen3-Coder-Next tops Qwen3.5 in Claude Code
A LocalLLaMA user reports that Qwen3-Coder-Next 80A3B and Qwen3.5 35B both ran at roughly 132K context inside 36GB of combined VRAM, but Coder-Next was far more dependable inside Claude Code. In this side-by-side local test, Qwen3.5 repeatedly stalled mid-job and needed workarounds, while Qwen3-Coder-Next handled tool calls cleanly and felt much closer to Sonnet-level reliability.
// ANALYSIS
Community evals like this are messy, but they matter because agentic coding lives or dies on tool-call stability, not just raw model size or benchmark bragging rights.
- –The key result is reliability, not speed: the poster says Qwen3-Coder-Next stayed stable through Claude Code jobs while Qwen3.5 35B often stopped in the middle.
- –Both models reportedly fit long context on a dual-GPU 36GB setup, which makes the stability gap more important than the raw 80B-versus-35B comparison.
- –That fits Qwen’s broader positioning around coding and agentic workflows, where tool use and long-horizon execution matter more than one-shot code generation.
- –It is still anecdotal and hardware-specific, but it is exactly the kind of field report local-first Claude Code users want before burning time on quant and template experiments.
// TAGS
qwen3-coder-nextclaude-codellmai-codingbenchmarkopen-weights
DISCOVERED
78d ago
2026-03-10
PUBLISHED
80d ago
2026-03-08
RELEVANCE
8/ 10
AUTHOR
ikaganacar