Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
Summary
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is an open-weight language model from Alibaba (Qwen), released on Sept 2025. It accepts text and generates text, with a 131K-token context window and up to 33K output tokens per response. As of 4 Oct 2026, the lowest listed API price is $0.09 per million input tokens and $1.10 per million output tokens (DeepInfra), across 7 providers we track.
Qwen instruction model for multilingual chat, reasoning, and tool use
Last verified 4 Oct 2026. Every figure on this page links to its source.
Specifications
| Developer | Alibaba (Qwen) |
|---|---|
| Release date | Sept 2025 [models.dev] |
| Status | Generally available [models.dev] |
| Weights | Open weights [Hugging Face] |
| License | apache-2.0 [Hugging Face] |
| Parameters | 81.3B [Hugging Face] |
| Context window | 131K (131,072 tokens) [models.dev] |
| Max output | 33K tokens [models.dev] |
| Knowledge cutoff | Apr 2025 [models.dev] |
| Input | Text [models.dev] |
| Output | Text [models.dev] |
| Reasoning mode | No [models.dev] |
| Tool calling | Yes [models.dev] |
| Hugging Face | Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct [Hugging Face] |
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct API pricing by provider
USD per million tokens. Sorted by input price.
| Provider | Input | Output | Cached input | Context | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepInfra Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct | $0.09 | $1.10 | – | 262K | models.dev, 4 Oct 2026 |
| OpenRouter qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct | $0.10 | $1.10 | $0.07 | 262K | OpenRouter, 4 Oct 2026 |
| Amazon Bedrock qwen.qwen3-next-80b-a3b | $0.15 | $1.20 | – | 262K | models.dev, 4 Oct 2026 |
| Novita AI qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct | $0.15 | $1.50 | – | 131K | models.dev, 4 Oct 2026 |
| Vercel AI Gateway alibaba/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct | $0.15 | $1.20 | – | 262K | models.dev, 4 Oct 2026 |
| Hugging Face Inference Providers Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct | $0.25 | $1 | – | 262K | models.dev, 4 Oct 2026 |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct | $0.50 | $2 | – | 131K | models.dev, 4 Oct 2026 |
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has a context window of 131,072 tokens (131K) and can generate up to 32,768 tokens in a single response, according to models.dev.
How much does the Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct API cost?
Through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct costs $0.50 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens. The lowest listed price is $0.09 input / $1.10 output through DeepInfra. Prices last verified 4 Oct 2026.
Is Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct open source?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is an open-weight model: its weights are published on Hugging Face as Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct under the apache-2.0 license. Check the license terms before commercial use.
When was Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct released?
Alibaba (Qwen) released Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct on Sept 2025, according to models.dev.
Which providers offer Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
We track Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct on 7 providers: DeepInfra, OpenRouter, Amazon Bedrock, Novita AI, Vercel AI Gateway, Hugging Face Inference Providers, Alibaba Cloud Model Studio.
Change history
No changes detected since we started tracking this model. We re-check every source daily.
Sources
- https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct
- https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/alibaba/models/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct.toml
- https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
- https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/deepinfra/models/Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct.toml
- https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/amazon-bedrock/models/qwen.qwen3-next-80b-a3b.toml
- https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/novita-ai/models/qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct.toml
- https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/vercel/models/alibaba/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct.toml
- https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/huggingface/models/Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct.toml