Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking

qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking is a reasoning-first chat model in the Qwen3-Next line that outputs structured “thinking” traces by default. It’s designed for hard multi-step problems; math proofs, code synthesis/debugging, logic, and agentic...

Modalities

In / out price

$0.15 / $1.2 per 1M

Context

262K

Released

Sep 11, 2025

Why use Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking

Step-by-step reasoning mode
Tool and function calling (agent-ready)
Structured (JSON) outputs

Pricing

Input	$0.15 / 1M tokens
Output	$1.2 / 1M tokens

List prices via OpenRouter, checked daily. Real cost depends on the provider and on reasoning tokens.

How it ranks

Coding index17.4

Source: Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai) via OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings).

Cost calculator

Pick a task, set how often you run it, and compare what it costs on each model.

TaskInput tokens≈ 602 wordsOutput tokens≈ 1,504 wordsRuns per month

Input served from cache: 0%Repeated prompts (same instructions or document) are billed at the cheaper cache-read price where the model supports it.

Model	Per run	Per month	Per 1,000 runs
Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking	$0.0025	$2.52	$2.52

Estimates from list prices via OpenRouter; real bills vary by provider and reasoning tokens.

Will it fit? Context window simulator

Each square is about one page (500 words). Colored squares are your content; grey squares are free space in the model's context window.

Your content

Novel (90,000 words)

Total: about 120,000 tokens (≈ 90,226 words). Token counts are estimates.

Models

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