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Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base is the foundation model in the Qwen3-Next series, featuring revolutionary architectural innovations for ultimate training and inference efficiency.
Updated Aug 12, 2026. Default version: Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Technical details for the model's default version.
This profile uses the model's current scored version. Arena ratings and prices are shown separately.
Benchmark scores for Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct.
| Arena-Hard v2 | 82.7% | 02 | 16 | 93.3% | C | |
| MultiPL-E | 87.8% | 02 | 13 | 91.7% | C | |
| WritingBench | 87.3% | 02 | 15 | 92.9% | C | |
| LiveBench 20241125 | 75.8% | 04 | 14 | 76.9% | C | |
| Creative Writing v3 | 85.3% | 08 | 13 | 41.7% | C | |
| Multi-IF | 75.8% | 08 | 20 | 63.2% | C | |
| BFCL-v3 | 70.3% | 10 | 19 | 50.0% | C | |
| Include | 78.9% | 13 | 31 | 60.0% | C | |
| Aider-Polyglot | 49.8% | 16 | 22 | 28.6% | C | |
| MMLU-ProX | 76.7% | 16 | 32 | 51.6% | C | |
| PolyMATH | 45.9% | 16 | 23 | 31.8% | C | |
| TAU-bench Airline | 44.0% | 18 | 23 | 22.7% | C | |
| SuperGPQA | 58.8% | 19 | 34 | 45.5% | C | |
| TAU-bench Retail | 60.9% | 19 | 25 | 25.0% | C | |
| HMMT25 | 54.1% | 21 | 25 | 16.7% | C | |
| Tau2 Airline | 45.5% | 22 | 23 | 4.5% | C | |
| MMLU-Redux | 90.9% | 23 | 48 | 53.2% | C | |
| Tau2 Retail | 57.3% | 25 | 26 | 4.0% | C | |
| IFEval | 87.6% | 31 | 65 | 53.1% | C | |
| Tau2 Telecom | 13.2% | 35 | 35 | 0.0% | C | |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 56.6% | 39 | 53 | 26.9% | C | |
| MMLU-Pro | 80.6% | 52 | 129 | 60.2% | C | |
| AIME 2025 | 69.5% | 90 | 114 | 21.2% | C | |
| GPQA | 72.9% | 121 | 234 | 48.5% | C |
Preference and agent-evaluation results for the default version.
| text | overall | 101 | 1418.5 | 23,006 | N/A | |
| text factuality | overall | 112 | 1418.4 | 7,700 | N/A | |
| text style control | overall | 137 | 1400.8 | 23,006 | N/A |
Provider-specific output speed and catalog latency for Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct. Runtime does not affect the capability score.
No provider-specific speed or latency record is linked to the default version yet.
Output Speed is generated output tokens received per second. Catalog latency is reported separately from observed provider TTFT.
Official vendor API pricing appears first, followed by individual provider offers.
| Nvidia | qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct | global | N/A | N/A | 262.1K | |
| OpenRouter | qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct | global | $0.09 | $1.1 | 262.1K | |
| Deep Infra | Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct | global | $0.09 | $1.1 | 262.1K | |
| Kilo Gateway | qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct | global | $0.0975 | $0.78 | 262.1K | |
| Charm Hyper | qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct | global | $0.1175 | $1.14 | 262.1K | |
| Helicone | qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct | global | $0.14 | $1.4 | 262K | |
| Merge Gateway | qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct | global | $0.144 | $0.574 | 131.1K | |
| Alibaba (China) | qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct | global | $0.144 | $0.574 | 131.1K | |
| NanoGPT | qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct | global | $0.15 | $0.65 | 256K | |
| LLM Gateway | qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct | global | $0.15 | $1.2 | 131.1K | |
| Neon | qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct | global | $0.15 | $1.2 | 131.1K | |
| Vercel AI Gateway | alibaba/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct | global | $0.15 | $1.2 | 131.1K | |
| NovitaAI | qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct | global | $0.15 | $1.5 | 131.1K | |
| Jiekou.AI | qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct | global | $0.15 | $1.5 | 65.5K | |
| Hugging Face | Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct | global | $0.25 | $1 | 262.1K | |
| Alibaba | qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct | global | $0.50 | $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.
Available versions of this model. The score column identifies the version used in the overall ranking.
| Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base | N/A | 80B | N/A | N/A | No | Apache 2.0 | |
| Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct | 36.6 | 80B | 131.1K | 32.8K | Yes | Apache 2.0 |
Key information about Qwen3 Next 80B A3B and its available data.
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base is the foundation model in the Qwen3-Next series, featuring revolutionary architectural innovations for ultimate training and inference efficiency. 7% activation ratio), and native Multi-Token Prediction for faster inference.
With 80B total parameters and only ~3B activated per inference step, it achieves performance comparable to Qwen3-32B while using less than 10% training cost and delivering 10x+ throughput for 32K+ contexts.
Trained on 15T tokens with training-stability-friendly designs including Zero-Centered RMSNorm and normalized MoE router parameters. Supports 256K context length, extensible to 1M tokens with YaRN scaling.
Data as of 2026-08-11.
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Common questions about Qwen3 Next 80B A3B.
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B's default version was released on Sep 10, 2025.
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B's official API price is $0.50 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens via Alibaba. The lowest tracked third-party offer starts at $0.09 input and $1.1 output via OpenRouter.
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B was created by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.
The default version has a 131.1K token context window.
Yes. The default version is marked as open weight under Apache 2.0.
17 provider offerings are linked to the default version.
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