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title: "Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Next — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai"
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# Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Next — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Next: $0.120/M in, $0.800/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Qwen3 Coder Next

Qwen · released 2026-02-04

 $0.290 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 is both better and cheaper.

It scores **+30.5** higher and costs **64% less** ($0.105/M against $0.290/M) on this workload — and it does everything this model does.

[Solar Pro 4](/models/upstage__solar-pro4) is cheaper still (82% less) but drops 262K → 131K max output.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $0.120 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $0.800 /M |
| Cached input | $0.070 /M |

### Independent scores

| Intelligence | 21.3 |
| --- | --- |
| Coding | 36.2 |
| Agentic | 8.9 |

Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.

### Capability

| Context window | 262K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 262K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | no |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | verified |

Qwen3-Coder-Next is an open-weight causal language model optimized for coding agents and local development workflows. It uses a sparse MoE design with 80B total parameters and only 3B activated per...