Qwen

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct

CTX131K

70Quality

Tools

Input$0.50/M

Output$2/M

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

Open weightsApache 2.0649/1044

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Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct

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

qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct

Type: Text
Quality: 70 · Top 30% on the LMArena Text
Context window: 131,072 tokens
Max output: 32,768 tokens
Input price: $0.50 / 1M tokens
Output price: $2.00 / 1M tokens
Cache read: —
Cache write: —
Parameters: 81B (81,324,862,720)
Downloads: 180K in the last 30 days
Likes: 1.1K
Access to weights: Open download
Released: Sep 1, 2025
Knowledge cutoff: Apr 2025
Takes in: Text
Puts out: Text
Reasoning: No
Tool calling: Yes
Structured output: No
File attachments: No
Access: Open weights
License: Apache 2.0
Rarity: Uncommon
Set number: 649/1044

Open Qwen docs Weights on Hugging Face Quality 70 Where to run it 22 Evolution 5/8 Race it 71 tok/s Meet its creature Battle Grok Build 0.1

License read from the model’s Hugging Face card. Specs from models.dev, downloads from Hugging Face, last changed Oct 19, 2026. Official source: www.alibabacloud.com.

How good is it?

Public leaderboard scores for Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.

Top 30% of the 416 models on the LMArena Text: #126.

Quality is the share of a leaderboard’s models this one beats, from 0 to 100. Chat models are rated on Epoch AI’s Capabilities Index when it lists them, otherwise on LMArena; image and video models on LMArena’s image and video arenas.

Leaderboards

LMArena Text#126 of 416
People compare two anonymous answers and vote for the better one.1,417 rating
LMArena Text · Coding#115 of 411
The text arena’s coding prompts only.1,440 rating
LMArena Text · Math#82 of 400
The text arena’s math prompts only.1,440 rating
LMArena Text · Creative writing#185 of 414
The text arena’s creative writing prompts only.1,333 rating

Scores from LMArena, licensed CC BY 4.0. Boards list models under their own names, so a close match is shown with the name it was scored under. Credits

Where to run it

20 providers sell Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct through an API, and 2 Hugging Face hosts serve it. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

CheapestAlibaba (China)$0.14 in · $0.57 out
Free to try1 providerNvidia
From the labAlibaba$0.50 in · $2.00 out
Fastest on Hugging FaceDeepInfra71 tokens/s

API providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
NvidiaFree`qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct`	Free	Free	262K
Alibaba (China)Cheapest paid`qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct`	$0.14	$0.57	131K
NanoGPT`qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking`	$0.15	$0.65	256K
IO.NET`Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct`	$0.10	$0.80	262K
Deep Infra`Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct`	$0.09	$1.10	262K
Eden AI`deepinfra/Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct`	$0.09	$1.10	262K
Kilo Gateway`qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct`	$0.09	$1.10	262K
OpenRouter`qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct`	$0.09	$1.10	262K
Merge Gateway`qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct`	$0.10	$1.10	131K
Amazon Bedrock`qwen.qwen3-next-80b-a3b`	$0.15	$1.20	262K

Show 10 more providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
DevPass (LLM Gateway)`qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking`	$0.15	$1.20	131K
LLM Gateway`vertex-openai/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct`	$0.15	$1.20	131K
Neon`qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct`	$0.15	$1.20	131K
Vercel AI Gateway`alibaba/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct`	$0.15	$1.20	262K
Helicone`qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct`	$0.14	$1.40	262K
Jalapeno Cloud`Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking`	$0.15	$1.50	131K
Jiekou.AI`qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct`	$0.15	$1.50	66K
AI/ML API`alibaba/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct`	$0.21	$1.65	129K
AlibabaOfficial`qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct`	$0.50	$2.00	131K
Qiniu`qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct`	—	—	131K

Hugging Face Inference Providers

Host	Input	Output	Context	Speed	First token
DeepInfraFastestTools	$0.09	$1.10	262K	71 tok/s	0.4s
Featherless	—	—	—	—	—

From models.dev and Hugging Face, checked daily. Resellers’ listings can lag behind their price pages, so confirm with the provider before you commit.

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