Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking is Alibaba's language model with a 262K context window and up to 66K output tokens, available from 9 providers, starting at $0.0975 / 1M input and $0.78 / 1M output. A thinking-mode variant of the Qwen3 Next MoE model with 80B total and 3B activated parameters, featuring hybrid attention for extended chain-of-thought reasoning.
Specifications
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window262K tokens
Max Output66K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Parameters80B
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Release Date · 10 months ago
Knowledge Cutoff · 10 months ago

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities5/13
Reasoning
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling
Parallel Function Calling
Structured Outputs
Native JSON Schema
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

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Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandardBatch
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba Qwen
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
$0.15$1.20$0.075$0.6
DeepInfra logo
DeepInfra
deepinfra/Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
$0.14$1.40
Fireworks AI logo
Fireworks AI
fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
$0.9$0.9
Google Gemini logo
Google Gemini
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
$0.15$1.20
Google Vertex AI logo
Google Vertex AI
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
$0.15$1.20
Novita logo
Novita
novita/qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
$0.15$1.50
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
$0.0975$0.78
Together AI logo
Together AI
together_ai/Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
$0.15$1.50
Vercel AI Gateway logo
Vercel AI Gateway
alibaba/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
$0.15$1.20

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 192 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.

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FP16 (full precision)
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Standard_NP40sAzure4× AMD Alveo U250 FPGA (64GB)256 GB$6.60/hrwestus2
g2-standard-96GCP8× nvidia-l4192 GB$7.98/hrus-east4
g7e.12xlargeAWS2× RTX PRO Server 6000192 GB$8.29/hrus-east-1
7 more instances can run Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Qwen3 Coder Next262K$0.110$0.800Available
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking262K$0.098$0.780Current
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct262K$0.100$0.900Deprecating

Model IDs

accounts/fireworks/models/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
alibaba-qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
alibaba/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
dashscope/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
deepinfra/Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
novita/qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
together_ai/Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking