Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Next
Qwen's Qwen3 Coder Next is a budget-friendly coding-oriented model with tool use support and a 262K context window, though its benchmark scores are modest — best suited for lighter coding assistance tasks where cost is a priority, with some regional accessibility considerations.
Assessment date: April 4, 2026
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Performance Profile
Qwen3-Coder-Next is an open-weight causal language model optimized for coding agents and local development workflows. It uses a sparse MoE design with 80B total parameters and only 3B activated per..
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text → Text |
| Tokenizer | Qwen |
Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
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Technical
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Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
qwen/qwen3-coder-next
|
| Provider | qwen |
| Release Date | February 4, 2026 |
| Context Length | 262,144 tokens |
| Max Completion | 262,144 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.15 | $0.000150 |
| Output | $0.80 | $0.000800 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
