MODEL PROOF
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
BETTER VALUE OPTION
A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
GLM 5.3 Flash · Δ score 101.3 points · 42% lower measured price · $0.238 / 1M tokens
Gemma 4 31B is a further stored option with these losses: 33K → 16K max output
Lifecycle: retirement date · 09 Oct 2026
- Independent LMArena score
- 1,368.3 ± 5.86 · 13,371 votes
- Context window
- 262.14K
- Maximum output
- 32.77K
- Input modalities
- text
- Output modalities
- text
- Published input price
- $0.150 / 1M tokens
- Published output price
- $1.20 / 1M tokens
- Pricing kind
- fixed
Inspect complete billing conditions and endpoint terms below.
Price from Alibaba: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at the maker’s precision or better, at its standard rate.
Every price dimension · USD per million tokens
| Input | $0.150/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $1.20/M |
| Cached input | Unknown/M |
| Cache write | Unknown/M |
| Cache write 1h | Unknown/M |
| Reasoning | Unknown/M |
Who sells it
The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.
2 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions
Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.
| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Googlegoogle-vertex/global Endpoint terms
| $0.150 | $1.20 | undeclared | 96.64% |
| Alibabaalibaba Endpoint terms
| $0.150 | $1.20 | undeclared | 99.68% |
Independent scores
| LMArena Elo | 1368.3default |
|---|
LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.
Capability
| Context window | 262K |
|---|---|
| Max output | 32K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | always on |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2025-09-30 |
| Open weights | Unknown |
Retirement scheduled for 2026-10-09. Do not start new work on it.
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-10-06 |
| Quality data | verified |
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking is a reasoning-first chat model in the Qwen3-Next line that outputs structured “thinking” traces by default. It’s designed for hard multi-step problems; math proofs, code synthesis/debugging, logic, and agentic...
Questions this page answers
What does Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking cost?
$0.150/M in, $1.20/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.
Does Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking have an independent quality score?
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking has an LMArena score in this catalogue.
What beats Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking?
GLM 5.3 Flash has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking?
No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.
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