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Qwen3 Next 80B A3B

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is the first in the Qwen3-Next series, featuring groundbreaking architectural innovations. It uses Hybrid Attention combining Gated DeltaNet and Gated Attention for efficient ultra-long context modeling, High-Sparsity MoE with 512 experts (10 activated + 1 shared) achieving extreme low activation ratio, and Multi-Token Prediction for improved performance and faster inference. With 80B total parameters and only 3B activated, it outperforms Qwen3-32B-Base with 10% training cost and 10x throughput for 32K+ contexts. The model performs on par with Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 while excelling at ultra-long-context tasks up to 256K tokens (extensible to 1M with YaRN). Architecture: 48 layers, 15T training tokens, hybrid layout of 12*(3*(Gated DeltaNet->MoE)->(Gated Attention->MoE)).

Updated Aug 10, 2026. Default version: Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

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LLMBoard score41.8Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Coverage80%13 benchmark families
Context window131.1KTokens
Official input price$0.144Alibaba (China) API

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Model specification

Structured fields from the published default version.

Version
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Released
Sep 10, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
Apr 1, 2025
Parameters
80B
Context window
131.1K
Max output
32.8K
Inputs
text
Outputs
text
Open weights
Yes
License
Apache 2.0

Capability profile

This profile uses the latest version under this unique model that has a calculated LLMBoard score. Arena and price are excluded.

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct category scores

Benchmark results

Published benchmark records for the scored version Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct.

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Arena-Hard v20.821693.3%CAug 7, 2026
MultiPL-E0.921391.7%CAug 7, 2026
WritingBench0.921592.9%CAug 7, 2026
LiveBench 202411250.841476.9%CAug 7, 2026
Creative Writing v30.981341.7%CAug 7, 2026
Multi-IF0.882063.2%CAug 7, 2026
BFCL-v30.7101950.0%CAug 7, 2026
Include0.8133160.0%CAug 7, 2026
Aider-Polyglot0.5162228.6%CAug 7, 2026
MMLU-ProX0.8163251.6%CAug 7, 2026
PolyMATH0.5162331.8%CAug 7, 2026
TAU-bench Airline0.4182322.7%CAug 7, 2026
SuperGPQA0.6193445.5%CAug 7, 2026
TAU-bench Retail0.6192525.0%CAug 7, 2026
HMMT250.5212516.7%CAug 7, 2026
Tau2 Airline0.522234.5%CAug 7, 2026
MMLU-Redux0.9234853.2%CAug 7, 2026
Tau2 Retail0.625264.0%CAug 7, 2026
IFEval0.9316553.1%CAug 7, 2026
Tau2 Telecom0.135350.0%CAug 7, 2026
LiveCodeBench v60.6395326.9%CAug 7, 2026
MMLU-Pro0.85212960.2%CAug 7, 2026
AIME 20250.79011421.2%CAug 7, 2026
GPQA0.712023348.7%CAug 7, 2026

Arena results

Preference and agent-evaluation signals from published Arena datasets.

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textindustry medicine and healthcare441456.11,171N/AAug 6, 2026
textspanish491449.2612N/AAug 6, 2026
textjapanese561404.7268N/AAug 6, 2026
textmath581441.41,209N/AAug 6, 2026
textchinese721472.11,182N/AAug 6, 2026
textindustry business and management and financial operations801422.04,277N/AAug 6, 2026
textgerman811420.1459N/AAug 6, 2026
textindustry legal and government811435.21,425N/AAug 6, 2026
textindustry mathematical811434.01,040N/AAug 6, 2026
textindustry software and it services831449.28,112N/AAug 6, 2026
text style controljapanese841379.1268N/AAug 6, 2026
text factualityindustry business and management and financial operations861431.6791N/AAug 6, 2026
text style controlspanish871422.4612N/AAug 6, 2026
textnon english911408.111,937N/AAug 6, 2026
textcoding931441.14,790N/AAug 6, 2026
texthard prompts951428.511,892N/AAug 6, 2026
textindustry life and physical and social science951434.43,508N/AAug 6, 2026
texthard prompts english991433.76,051N/AAug 6, 2026
text factualitynon english1001412.33,380N/AAug 6, 2026
textoverall1011418.822,846N/AAug 6, 2026
textexclude ties1011406.516,143N/AAug 6, 2026
textkorean1011360.5483N/AAug 6, 2026
textmulti turn1011417.74,084N/AAug 6, 2026
textpolish1011401.5990N/AAug 6, 2026
text factualitymulti turn1041420.4748N/AAug 6, 2026
textenglish1061425.010,870N/AAug 6, 2026
text style controlindustry medicine and healthcare1081439.61,171N/AAug 6, 2026
text style controlmath1081417.31,209N/AAug 6, 2026
text factualityexclude ties1091410.45,217N/AAug 6, 2026
text factualityhard prompts1101441.93,798N/AAug 6, 2026
text factualityindustry software and it services1111449.61,533N/AAug 6, 2026
text factualityoverall1121418.67,632N/AAug 6, 2026
text factualitycoding1121451.8907N/AAug 6, 2026
text style controlchinese1121452.21,182N/AAug 6, 2026
textrussian1131401.11,192N/AAug 6, 2026
textfrench1141416.0347N/AAug 6, 2026
text factualitycreative writing1161355.3499N/AAug 6, 2026
textexpert1181409.61,007N/AAug 6, 2026
text factualityhard prompts english1181430.81,232N/AAug 6, 2026
text factualityindustry entertainment and sports and media1181345.6715N/AAug 6, 2026
text factualityinstruction following1181392.71,228N/AAug 6, 2026
text style controlindustry business and management and financial operations1181412.04,277N/AAug 6, 2026
textinstruction following1191389.46,309N/AAug 6, 2026
text factualityindustry life and physical and social science1191395.0524N/AAug 6, 2026
text style controlgerman1191389.3459N/AAug 6, 2026
textlonger query1201402.35,213N/AAug 6, 2026
text factualityindustry writing and literature and language1201369.6955N/AAug 6, 2026
text factualitylonger query1201408.2997N/AAug 6, 2026
text style controlindustry mathematical1221414.61,040N/AAug 6, 2026
text style controlindustry software and it services1241443.58,112N/AAug 6, 2026
text factualityenglish1251416.13,304N/AAug 6, 2026
text style controlindustry legal and government1291413.31,425N/AAug 6, 2026
text style controlhard prompts1311420.911,892N/AAug 6, 2026
text style controlhard prompts english1341428.76,051N/AAug 6, 2026
text style controloverall1351401.122,846N/AAug 6, 2026
text style controlcoding1351445.54,790N/AAug 6, 2026
text style controlexclude ties1351384.016,143N/AAug 6, 2026
text style controlmulti turn1351403.44,084N/AAug 6, 2026
text style controlnon english1351387.011,937N/AAug 6, 2026
text style controlpolish1361372.7990N/AAug 6, 2026
text style controlfrench1371403.3347N/AAug 6, 2026
text style controlindustry life and physical and social science1371416.83,508N/AAug 6, 2026
text style controlrussian1401387.21,192N/AAug 6, 2026
textindustry entertainment and sports and media1411351.84,196N/AAug 6, 2026
text style controlenglish1411410.910,870N/AAug 6, 2026
text style controlkorean1471323.7483N/AAug 6, 2026
textindustry writing and literature and language1491356.05,043N/AAug 6, 2026
text style controlinstruction following1551378.46,309N/AAug 6, 2026
text style controllonger query1561389.75,213N/AAug 6, 2026
text style controlexpert1591393.51,007N/AAug 6, 2026
textcreative writing1611335.13,021N/AAug 6, 2026
text style controlindustry entertainment and sports and media1731327.94,196N/AAug 6, 2026
text style controlindustry writing and literature and language1771343.75,043N/AAug 6, 2026
text style controlcreative writing1931315.73,021N/AAug 6, 2026

Pricing

Official vendor API PAYG pricing is summarized first. The table then lists individual provider offerings without treating their minimum as the official price.

Official API
$0.144 input, $0.574 output per 1M
Official provider
Alibaba (China)
Lowest third-party
From $0.1175 input, $1.14 output per 1M via Charm Hyper
Tracked offerings
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Charm Hyperqwen3-next-80b-a3b-instructglobal$0.1175$1.14262.1KAug 7, 2026
Heliconeqwen3-next-80b-a3b-instructglobal$0.14$1.4262KAug 7, 2026
Alibaba (China)qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instructglobal$0.144$0.574131.1KAug 7, 2026
LLM Gatewayqwen3-next-80b-a3b-instructglobal$0.15$1.2131.1KAug 7, 2026
Neonqwen3-next-80b-a3b-instructglobal$0.15$1.2131.1KAug 7, 2026

Official prices use only the vendor's configured official Provider and positive standard USD PAYG rates. Third-party offers remain explicitly labeled.

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B versions

All published versions linked to this unique model. The score columns identify the version used by the current overall ranking.

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Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-BaseSep 10, 2025N/A80BN/AN/ANoApache 2.0
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-InstructSep 10, 202541.880B131.1K32.8KYesApache 2.0

What is Qwen3 Next 80B A3B?

A concise description based on the published model registry.

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is the first in the Qwen3-Next series, featuring groundbreaking architectural innovations. It uses Hybrid Attention combining Gated DeltaNet and Gated Attention for efficient ultra-long context modeling, High-Sparsity MoE with 512 experts (10 activated + 1 shared) achieving extreme low activation ratio, and Multi-Token Prediction for improved performance and faster inference. With 80B total parameters and only 3B activated, it outperforms Qwen3-32B-Base with 10% training cost and 10x throughput for 32K+ contexts. The model performs on par with Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 while excelling at ultra-long-context tasks up to 256K tokens (extensible to 1M with YaRN). Architecture: 48 layers, 15T training tokens, hybrid layout of 12*(3*(Gated DeltaNet->MoE)->(Gated Attention->MoE)).

Use the benchmark, Arena and pricing sections above as separate evidence. A missing field means the current data snapshot does not support that claim.

Data snapshot: 2026-08-07. Editorial model content is not available in the backend.

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B vs nearby models

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FAQ

Common questions about Qwen3 Next 80B A3B.

When was Qwen3 Next 80B A3B released?

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B's default version was released on Sep 10, 2025.

How much does Qwen3 Next 80B A3B cost?

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B's official API price is $0.144 per million input tokens and $0.574 per million output tokens via Alibaba (China). The lowest tracked third-party offer starts at $0.1175 input and $1.14 output via Charm Hyper.

Who created Qwen3 Next 80B A3B?

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B is published under Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team in the model registry.

What is the context window for Qwen3 Next 80B A3B?

The default version has a 131.1K token context window.

Is Qwen3 Next 80B A3B open weight?

Yes. The default version is marked as open weight under Apache 2.0.

How many API providers offer Qwen3 Next 80B A3B?

6 published provider offerings are linked to the default version.

What models should I compare Qwen3 Next 80B A3B with?

Nearby ranked alternatives include GPT-5.4-nano, Qwen3 VL 235B A22B, Phi 3.5 MoE.

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