Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking

Public pricingIntelligence 80/100Medium memoryDeep thinkingTool use

Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking is a text model for coding, software engineering, and agent workflows. It combines strong coding performance and reliable tool use and agent behavior with a 131K tokens context window and a low-cost profile. Use it for coding, software engineering, and agent workflows when accuracy, context, and control matters.

Input

$0.10/1M

Output

$0.78/1M

Cached

$0.03/1M

Batch

$0.05/1M

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Technical specifications

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking at a glance.

Memory

131,072

tokens

Max reply

32,768

tokens

Memory tier

Medium

a long report or a codebase file

Tokenizer

qwen3

Released

Sep 2025

Training cutoff

Jun 2025

Availability

Public pricing

Status

active

Benchmarks

Quality benchmarks

Independent evaluations from public leaderboards. Higher is better.

  • mmlu_pro

    82.7

  • gpqa_diamond

    77.2

  • aime_2025

    87.8

  • ifeval

    88.9

  • livecodebench

    68.7

What it can do

Capabilities & limits.

  • Understands images
  • Deep step-by-step thinking
  • Uses tools / calls functions
  • Strict JSON output
  • Streams replies
  • Fine-tunable on your data

When to pick Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking

  • Multi-step reasoning, research agents, or hard math.
  • Agentic workflows that call tools or APIs.
  • High-volume workloads where unit cost matters.

When to look elsewhere

  • Your workload involves images — pick a vision-capable model instead.

Alternatives

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At a typical workload of 50,000 conversations a month with 1,500-token prompts and 800-token replies, Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking costs roughly $39 per month. Input is $0.10 /1M tokens and output is $0.78 /1M tokens.
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking has a 131,072-token context window (medium memory — a long report or a codebase file). That means you can fit about 24,576 words of input and history in a single call.
Beyond text generation, Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking supports deep step-by-step reasoning, calling functions / tools, strict JSON output, fine-tuning on your own data. It streams replies by default.
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking was released in September 2025, with training data cut off around June 2025.
Models in a similar class include Qwen3.5-9B, Qwen3 30B A3B, Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507. The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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