Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct

by Alibaba (Qwen)Chat

Qwen instruction model for multilingual chat, reasoning, and tool use

Context
131K tokens
Max output
32,768 tokens
Parameters
81.3B total
Released
2025-09
Weights
Open
Licence
apache-2.0

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alibaba/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct · also seen as Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct, qwen.qwen3-next-80b-a3b, novita/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct, vertex-openai/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct, +6 more

Specifications

Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.

Released
2025-09
Weights
Opennot gated
License
apache-2.0
Input
Text
Output
Text
Context window
131,072 max across endpoints
Max output
32,768
Providers
19 + 12 gateways, not counted as providers
Epoch Capabilities Index
not evaluated
Direct price range
$0.09–$0.50 in · $0.574–$2.000 out per 1M tokens · 7 of 19 providers have a comparable price
More details
Last updated
2026-01
Knowledge cutoff
2025-04
Weights link
Hugging Face · Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Parameters
81.3B total

Capabilities

Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.

  • Tool calling
  • Parallel tools
  • Structured output
  • Reasoning
  • Image input
  • PDF input
  • Audio input
  • Audio outputunknown
  • Video input
  • Prompt caching
  • Web searchunknown
  • Computer useunknown
  • System messages
  • Assistant prefillunknown
  • Temperature
  • Streamingunknown
  • Attachments

Endpoints

One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.

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Price history

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No change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $0.144 in / $0.574 out per 1M tokens at Alibaba (China) on every data refresh since then.

Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON

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Heads up: prices are indicative list rates scraped from provider pricing pages; verify with the provider before relying on them. Report incorrect data for this model