Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking — Alibaba | Modeldex

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking

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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...

Updated 4 days agoStructured data from Modeldex catalog

Budget

Knowledge cutoff

Sep 30, 2025(7 months ago)

API release

Sep 11, 2025(7 months ago)

Not enough benchmark coverage yet for an Intelligence Index — needs at least 3 results across 2 categories.

Overview

History

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking became available via the Alibaba API on 2025-09-11.

Training & availability

Training data has a knowledge cutoff of 2025-09-30 — information about events after that date is unlikely to appear in the model's responses. Alibaba has not released the underlying model weights — access is via their hosted API only.

Capabilities

Context window: 131K tokens.
Input modalities: text.

Recommended for: cheap.

Limitations

Text-only — cannot process images, audio, or video inputs.

Pricing

Input: $0.0975 per 1M tokens
Output: $0.7800 per 1M tokens

Use the cost calculator above to estimate monthly spend for your workload.

Quick start

Minimal example using the OpenRouter API. Copy, paste, replace the key.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
    api_key="sk-or-...",
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="alibaba/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in one sentence."}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill. Presets are typical workload sizes.

Input tokens / month5.0M

@ $0.0975/1M

Output tokens / month2.0M

@ $0.78/1M

Input cost

$0.488

5.0M × $0.0975/1M

Output cost

$1.56

2.0M × $0.78/1M

Total / month

$2.05

$24.57 / year

Popularity

Signals from open-source communities — not a quality measure, but useful for gauging adoption among developers.

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HuggingFace downloads

33.3K/ month

HuggingFace likes

487

Integrations & tooling support

Tool calling: Not supported
Structured outputs: Not supported

Price vs quality

Budget pricing

Priced low — good for high-volume tasks. Quality tier pending more benchmark coverage.