Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Analysis Summary
Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking sits in the Specialist tier on our leaderboard, ranked #116 of 544 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.098 input and $0.780 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a standard large context window and supports tool use, function calling, and reasoning.
Editorial notes
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking shows strong math and instruction-following scores with very competitive pricing, but its intelligence and coding indices are limited, and the provider penalty applies.
Assessed May 5, 2026
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Performance Profile
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking is a reasoning-first chat model in the Qwen3-Next line that outputs structured āthinkingā traces by default. Itās designed for hard multi-step problems; math proofs, code synthesis/debugging, logic, and agentic..
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
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| Provider | qwen |
| Release Date | September 11, 2025 |
| Context Length | 131,072 tokens |
| Max Completion | 32,768 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.10 | $0.000098 |
| Output | $0.78 | $0.000780 |
Live Performance
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