Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Alibaba · Released Sep 2025
An 80-billion-parameter dense language model from Alibaba with extended reasoning capabilities and a 262k-token context window.
- Strengths
- Handles complex reasoning tasks through its thinking mode while maintaining a large context window for processing long documents and multi-turn conversations.
- Best for
- Workloads requiring detailed step-by-step reasoning over extended text, such as code review, technical analysis, and document understanding at scale.
- Limitations
- At 80 billion parameters, it demands more computational resources than smaller models in the lineup like the 30B variants, making it less suitable for latency-sensitive applications or resource-constrained deployments.
Input / 1M
$0.15
Output / 1M
$1.20
Cached input / 1M
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Context window
262K
Price history
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Price change
- 30d
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- 90d
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- 1y
- in increased 53.8% out increased 53.8%
- Since launch
- in increased 53.8% out increased 53.8%
Snapshots
| Effective | Input | Output | Cached in | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Jul 2026 | $0.15 | $1.20 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 11 Jun 2026 | $0.0975 | $0.78 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |