Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Open hybrid-reasoning MoE with 262K context at a fraction of frontier cost.
About
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct was released on September 11, 2025, as part of Alibaba's Qwen3-Next generation of hybrid reasoning models. The 80B-total / 3B-active mixture-of-experts design supports a 262K-token context window with function calling and structured output.
Third-party catalogs list API pricing around $0.10 per million input tokens and $1.10 per million output tokens, far below closed frontier models. Weights are available on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license, making it a popular open option for long-context and agentic workloads.
Specs
Context window
Pricing
Free quota
API access
Weights
Released
Benchmarks
Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.
Use cases
Trust score — 8/10
Scored 8/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: Verified via vendor site/docs/GitHub and reputable coverage, wave 101; Trending score 82/100 from researcher assessment.