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MODEL PROOF # Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking Qwen · 11 Sept 2025 Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic BETTER VALUE OPTION ## A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price. **$0.413** / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out [GLM 5.3 Flash](/models/z-ai__glm-5.3-flash/) · Δ score 101.3 points · 42% lower measured price · $0.238 / 1M tokens [Gemma 4 31B](/models/google__gemma-4-31b-it/) is a further stored option with these losses: 33K → 16K max output Lifecycle: retirement date · 09 Oct 2026 Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026 [openrouter/models](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) [LMArena · cc-by-4.0](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset) 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](#billing-details) 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Seller Google google-vertex/global Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 262,144 tokens Output limit 235,929 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes Unknown | Input $0.150 | Output $1.20 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 96.64% | | Seller Alibaba alibaba Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 131,072 tokens Output limit 32,768 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes Unknown | Input $0.150 | Output $1.20 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.68% | ### Independent scores | LMArena Elo | 1368.3 default | | --- | --- | 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](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) | | --- | --- | | 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. MODEL MONUMENT ## Save or share this proof Download proof card · 1200 × 630 Preview and more sharing options Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking. Balanced workload. Better value option available. Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026. Copy model link Download square card · 1080 × 1080 Copy landscape image Share landscape card ## Related - Both better and cheaper [GLM 5.3 Flash](/models/z-ai__glm-5.3-flash/) - Higher score and cheaper, with a named trade [Gemma 4 31B](/models/google__gemma-4-31b-it/) - Nearby on the capability axis [GPT-5.4 Nano](/models/openai__gpt-5.4-nano/) - Same vendor [Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507](/models/qwen__qwen3-30b-a3b-instruct-2507/) - Qwen models [Qwen](/providers/qwen/) - Where this model appears [deprecations](/deprecations/) - Nearby on the capability axis [Qwen3 235B A22B](/models/qwen__qwen3-235b-a22b/) - Same vendor [Qwen3.5-35B-A3B](/models/qwen__qwen3.5-35b-a3b/) - Where this model appears [effort](/effort/) - Nearby on the capability axis [o1](/models/openai__o1/) - Same vendor [Qwen3 32B](/models/qwen__qwen3-32b/) - Where this model appears [significance](/significance/) ## Badge The verdict as one SVG, for a README or a docs page. 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