Qwen instruction model for multilingual chat, reasoning, and tool use
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct by alibaba is offered by 22 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 20 of them. Its official list price is $0.144 per 1M input tokens and $0.574 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is Alibaba (China) at $0.144 / $0.574 per 1M, about 5.6× below the list price. It also has 1 free ($0) channel; free tiers usually carry rate limits, and subscription-covered access bills $0 per token only after the subscription fee.
Artificial Analysis rates it 13.8 on the Intelligence Index. Against its lowest blended price of $0.252 per 1M, that is roughly 55 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on. Median output speed is 178 tokens per second, with 2.13s to the first token.
The context window is 131,072 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 65,536 to 262,144, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports tool use and structured output. Accepted input modalities are Text, Image, and Video. The weights are open, so it can also be self-hosted or served through a gateway of your choice. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2025-04.
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nvidia | First-party | Free | — | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 16,384 | ||
| Alibaba (China)Official | First-party | $0.144 | $0.574 | — | — | 131,072 | 32,768 | |
| Merge Gateway | Gateway | $0.144 | $0.574 | $0.029 | — | 131,072 | 32,768 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.098 | $0.78 | — | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 235,929 | |
| NanoGPT qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct | Gateway | $0.15 | $0.65 | $0.075 | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 235,929 | |
| IO.NET Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct | Cloud | $0.10 | $0.80 | $0.05 | $0.20 | 262,144 ⚠ | 4,096 | |
| Deep Infra Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct | Cloud | $0.09 | $1.10 | — | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.10 | $1.10 | $0.07 | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 235,929 | |
| Charm Hyper | Gateway | $0.117 | $1.14 | — | $0.059 | 262,144 ⚠ | 26,214 | |
| Vercel AI Gateway | Cloud | $0.15 | $1.20 | — | — | 131,072 | 32,768 | |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
1 more channels offer $0 (Nvidia); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.