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title: "Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai"
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description: "Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking: $0.150/M in, $1.20/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper."
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# Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking: $0.150/M in, $1.20/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking

Qwen · released 2025-09-11

 $0.412 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

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

It scores **+34.9** higher and costs **75% less** ($0.105/M against $0.412/M) on this workload — and it does everything this model does.

[Gemma 4 26B A4B](/models/google__gemma-4-26b-a4b-it) is cheaper still (67% less) but drops 33K → 16K max output.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $0.150 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $1.20 /M |

### Independent scores

| Intelligence | 16.9 |
| --- | --- |
| Coding | 17.4 |
| Agentic | 2.1 |

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 | 33K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | always on |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2025-09-30 |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| 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...