Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team model product
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking is the thinking variant of the Qwen3-Next series, featuring the same groundbreaking architecture as the instruct model. Leveraging GSPO, it addresses stability and efficiency challenges of hybrid attention + high-sparsity MoE in RL training. 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), and Multi-Token Prediction. With 80B total parameters and only 3B activated, it demonstrates outstanding performance on complex reasoning tasks — outperforming Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507, Qwen3-32B-Thinking, and even the proprietary Gemini-2.5-Flash-Thinking across multiple benchmarks. Architecture: 48 layers, 15T training tokens, hybrid layout of 12*(3*(Gated DeltaNet->MoE)->(Gated Attention->MoE)). Supports only thinking mode with automatic <think> tag inclusion, may generate longer thinking content.
Updated Aug 10, 2026. Default version: Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Structured fields from the published default version.
This profile uses the latest version under this unique model that has a calculated LLMBoard score. Arena and price are excluded.
Published benchmark records for the scored version Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking.
| CFEval | 2071.0 | 2 | 2 | 0.0% | C | |
| LiveBench 20241125 | 0.8 | 3 | 14 | 84.6% | C | |
| BFCL-v3 | 0.7 | 5 | 19 | 77.8% | C | |
| Multi-IF | 0.8 | 5 | 20 | 79.0% | C | |
| OJBench | 0.3 | 7 | 9 | 25.0% | C | |
| WritingBench | 0.8 | 9 | 15 | 42.9% | C | |
| Arena-Hard v2 | 0.6 | 10 | 16 | 40.0% | C | |
| PolyMATH | 0.6 | 10 | 23 | 59.1% | C | |
| TAU-bench Retail | 0.7 | 11 | 25 | 58.3% | C | |
| Tau2 Airline | 0.6 | 12 | 23 | 50.0% | C | |
| MMLU-ProX | 0.8 | 13 | 32 | 61.3% | C | |
| Include | 0.8 | 14 | 31 | 56.7% | C | |
| TAU-bench Airline | 0.5 | 15 | 23 | 36.4% | C | |
| HMMT25 | 0.7 | 16 | 25 | 37.5% | C | |
| SuperGPQA | 0.6 | 16 | 34 | 54.5% | C | |
| MMLU-Redux | 0.9 | 18 | 48 | 63.8% | C | |
| Tau2 Retail | 0.7 | 22 | 26 | 16.0% | C | |
| IFEval | 0.9 | 23 | 65 | 65.6% | C | |
| MMLU-Pro | 0.8 | 32 | 129 | 75.8% | C | |
| Tau2 Telecom | 0.4 | 32 | 35 | 8.8% | C | |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 0.7 | 33 | 53 | 38.5% | C | |
| AIME 2025 | 0.9 | 53 | 114 | 54.0% | C | |
| GPQA | 0.8 | 98 | 233 | 58.2% | C |
Preference and agent-evaluation signals from published Arena datasets.
| text | german | 140 | 1359.2 | 285 | N/A | |
| text | math | 140 | 1395.0 | 826 | N/A | |
| text | industry medicine and healthcare | 142 | 1390.8 | 720 | N/A | |
| text | chinese | 143 | 1417.4 | 713 | N/A | |
| text | korean | 144 | 1306.6 | 331 | N/A | |
| text style control | german | 144 | 1365.8 | 285 | N/A | |
| text | english | 145 | 1392.8 | 6,615 | N/A | |
| text | japanese | 145 | 1282.1 | 180 | N/A | |
| text | industry mathematical | 147 | 1388.0 | 666 | N/A | |
| text | polish | 147 | 1350.8 | 712 | N/A | |
| text style control | japanese | 147 | 1296.6 | 180 | N/A | |
| text style control | polish | 149 | 1364.6 | 712 | N/A | |
| text style control | chinese | 150 | 1412.6 | 713 | N/A | |
| text style control | korean | 151 | 1316.8 | 331 | N/A | |
| text style control | math | 151 | 1389.2 | 826 | N/A | |
| text | hard prompts english | 152 | 1385.9 | 3,486 | N/A | |
| text | expert | 153 | 1366.7 | 616 | N/A | |
| text | industry business and management and financial operations | 153 | 1361.8 | 2,495 | N/A | |
| text | industry software and it services | 153 | 1393.1 | 4,825 | N/A | |
| text | coding | 154 | 1391.4 | 2,672 | N/A | |
| text | industry life and physical and social science | 155 | 1381.7 | 2,119 | N/A | |
| text style control | industry mathematical | 157 | 1385.9 | 666 | N/A | |
| text | french | 158 | 1356.7 | 196 | N/A | |
| text | overall | 159 | 1367.6 | 13,661 | N/A | |
| text | hard prompts | 159 | 1370.0 | 6,674 | N/A | |
| text | spanish | 159 | 1348.6 | 398 | N/A | |
| text | exclude ties | 161 | 1333.2 | 9,737 | N/A | |
| text | instruction following | 165 | 1342.8 | 3,507 | N/A | |
| text style control | industry software and it services | 165 | 1409.4 | 4,825 | N/A | |
| text style control | coding | 166 | 1420.7 | 2,672 | N/A | |
| text style control | english | 166 | 1386.5 | 6,615 | N/A | |
| text | industry legal and government | 167 | 1363.9 | 866 | N/A | |
| text style control | expert | 167 | 1382.7 | 616 | N/A | |
| text style control | french | 167 | 1366.7 | 196 | N/A | |
| text style control | industry medicine and healthcare | 167 | 1393.7 | 720 | N/A | |
| text | non english | 169 | 1339.1 | 7,046 | N/A | |
| text | longer query | 170 | 1351.4 | 2,817 | N/A | |
| text | russian | 171 | 1337.8 | 747 | N/A | |
| text style control | overall | 171 | 1369.1 | 13,661 | N/A | |
| text style control | instruction following | 171 | 1358.2 | 3,507 | N/A | |
| text style control | spanish | 171 | 1350.4 | 398 | N/A | |
| text style control | exclude ties | 172 | 1337.0 | 9,737 | N/A | |
| text style control | hard prompts | 173 | 1383.9 | 6,674 | N/A | |
| text style control | industry business and management and financial operations | 173 | 1367.3 | 2,495 | N/A | |
| text style control | non english | 175 | 1348.3 | 7,046 | N/A | |
| text style control | russian | 175 | 1352.5 | 747 | N/A | |
| text | industry writing and literature and language | 176 | 1327.3 | 3,064 | N/A | |
| text style control | hard prompts english | 176 | 1395.8 | 3,486 | N/A | |
| text | industry entertainment and sports and media | 177 | 1312.0 | 2,441 | N/A | |
| text style control | industry life and physical and social science | 177 | 1379.7 | 2,119 | N/A | |
| text style control | longer query | 177 | 1368.4 | 2,817 | N/A | |
| text | multi turn | 178 | 1345.6 | 2,295 | N/A | |
| text style control | multi turn | 182 | 1349.9 | 2,295 | N/A | |
| text style control | industry writing and literature and language | 184 | 1338.1 | 3,064 | N/A | |
| text | creative writing | 185 | 1310.8 | 1,782 | N/A | |
| text style control | creative writing | 187 | 1322.7 | 1,782 | N/A | |
| text style control | industry entertainment and sports and media | 189 | 1315.1 | 2,441 | N/A | |
| text style control | industry legal and government | 192 | 1361.2 | 866 | N/A |
Official vendor API PAYG pricing is summarized first. The table then lists individual provider offerings without treating their minimum as the official price.
| Alibaba (China) | qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking | global | $0.144 | $1.43 | 131.1K | |
| Cortecs | qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking | global | $0.149 | $1.2 | 128K | |
| LLM Gateway | qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking | global | $0.15 | $1.2 | 131.1K |
Official prices use only the vendor's configured official Provider and positive standard USD PAYG rates. Third-party offers remain explicitly labeled.
All published versions linked to this unique model. The score columns identify the version used by the current overall ranking.
| Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking | 54.1 | 80B | 131.1K | 32.8K | Yes | Apache 2.0 |
A concise description based on the published model registry.
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking is the thinking variant of the Qwen3-Next series, featuring the same groundbreaking architecture as the instruct model. Leveraging GSPO, it addresses stability and efficiency challenges of hybrid attention + high-sparsity MoE in RL training. 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), and Multi-Token Prediction. With 80B total parameters and only 3B activated, it demonstrates outstanding performance on complex reasoning tasks — outperforming Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507, Qwen3-32B-Thinking, and even the proprietary Gemini-2.5-Flash-Thinking across multiple benchmarks. Architecture: 48 layers, 15T training tokens, hybrid layout of 12*(3*(Gated DeltaNet->MoE)->(Gated Attention->MoE)). Supports only thinking mode with automatic <think> tag inclusion, may generate longer thinking content.
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Data snapshot: 2026-08-07. Editorial model content is not available in the backend.
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Common questions about Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking.
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking's default version was released on Sep 10, 2025.
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking's official API price is $0.144 per million input tokens and $1.43 per million output tokens via Alibaba (China). The lowest tracked third-party offer starts at $0.149 input and $1.2 output via Cortecs.
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking is published under Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team in the model registry.
The default version has a 131.1K token context window.
Yes. The default version is marked as open weight under Apache 2.0.
4 published provider offerings are linked to the default version.
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