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 $0.50 per 1M input tokens and $2.00 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is Merge Gateway at $0.144 / $0.574 per 1M, about 5.6× below the list price. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it. 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 9.6 on the Intelligence Index. Against its lowest blended price of $0.252 per 1M, that is roughly 38 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on. Median output speed is 179 tokens per second, with 2.17s 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 | Cloud | Free | — | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 16,384 | deprecated | |
| Merge Gateway | Gateway | $0.14 | $0.57 | $0.029 | — | 131,072 | 32,768 | |
| Alibaba (China)Official | First-party | $0.14 | $0.57 | — | — | 131,072 | 32,768 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.098 | $0.78 | — | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 235,929 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.15 | $0.65 | $0.075 | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
| 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 | |
| Vercel AI Gateway | Cloud | $0.15 | $1.20 | — | — | 262,114 ⚠ | 262,114 | |
| Neon | Cloud | $0.15 | $1.20 | — | — | 131,072 | 10,000 | |
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.
Individual evaluations run by Artificial Analysis, on the same reasoning tier as the intelligence score above. Each benchmark has its own task set and harness, so rows are not comparable with one another. The Intelligence Index above draws on a different, newer set of evaluations.