Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct (free)
The free instruct variant of Qwen3 Next 80B A3B offers a generous 262K context window and tool use capability at no cost, making it a useful option for budget-conscious experimentation, though its benchmark scores are modest compared to leading models.
Assessment date: April 16, 2026
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Performance Profile
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is an instruction-tuned chat model in the Qwen3-Next series optimized for fast, stable responses without “thinking” traces. It targets complex tasks across reasoning, code generation, knowledge QA, and multilingual..
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text → Text |
| Tokenizer | Qwen3 |
| Parameters | 80B |
Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
Intelligence
Technical
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
How does Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct (free) stack up?
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct:free
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| Provider | qwen |
| Release Date | September 11, 2025 |
| Context Length | 262,144 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
