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Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)
alibaba·alibaba/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking·GA·Open weights·qwen series
Efficient Qwen thinking model for local reasoning, math, and coding agents
At a glance
Official price$0.144 / $1.43 per 1M
Cache read — · Alibaba (China)
Lowest paid$0.15 / $0.65
NanoGPT Gateway · 3.5× spread
Context131,072
⚠ Providers report 65,536–262,144; the table below is authoritative
Output limit32,768
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ TemperatureAttachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff2025-04
Released / updated2025-09 / 2025-09
Quality & performance
Artificial Analysis doesn't cover this model (267 of 2059 have data). Quality data comes from independent evals covering widely used models.
Available at 16 providers15 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.15 | $0.65 | $0.075 | — | 256,000 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
| Cortecs | Gateway | $0.149 | $1.20 | — | — | 128,000 ⚠ | 128,000 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.15 | $1.20 | — | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
| Nebius Token Factory Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking | Cloud | $0.15 | $1.20 | $0.015 | $0.18 | 128,000 ⚠ | 16,384 | |
| Merge Gateway | Gateway | $0.15 | $1.20 | — | — | 131,072 | 32,768 | |
| Vercel AI Gateway | Cloud | $0.15 | $1.20 | — | — | 131,072 | 32,768 | |
| Eden AI | Gateway | $0.15 | $1.20 | — | — | 131,072 | 32,768 | |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | Gateway | $0.15 | $1.20 | — | — | 131,072 | 32,768 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.15 | $1.20 | — | — | 131,072 | 32,768 | |
| Alibaba (China)Official | First-party | $0.144 | $1.43 | — | — | 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.
Your usage cost
1NanoGPT$53.50
2Nebius Token Factory$73.80
3Cortecs$89.55
4OpenRouter$90.00
5Merge Gateway$90.00
6Vercel AI Gateway$90.00
10Alibaba (China) · Official$100.50
Switch to NanoGPT to save $47.00/mo (47%)
Note: this is a gateway; verify availability and rate limits yourself.
Benchmark
No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.
Reasoning control
budget_tokenseffort = minimaleffort = loweffort = mediumeffort = higheffort = xhigheffort = maxToggle (on / off)
8 / 16 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended