Alibaba (Qwen) · Released Feb 3, 2026Qwen3 Coder Next
Open-weight Qwen coding model for agents, repository edits, and multi-turn tool use.
- Capability
- —No ECI score yet
- Input
- $0.20per 1M tokens
- Output
- $1.20per 1M tokens
- Context
- 262K66K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $0.20per million tokens
- Output
- $1.20per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $0.45cheaper than 63% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $1.00 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $11.00 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $110.00 |
Median of 11 paid API providers on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Qwen3 Coder Next yet.
The details
- Lab
- Alibaba (Qwen)
- Released
- Feb 3, 2026
- Knowledge cutoff
- Sep 2025
- Context window
- 262,144 tokens
- Max output
- 65,536 tokens
- Inputs
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- No
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- Yes
- Weights
- Open weights
- Availability
- 11 API providerslisted on models.dev
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About Qwen3 Coder Next
How much does Qwen3 Coder Next cost?
Qwen3 Coder Next costs $0.20 input / $1.20 output per million tokens (median across 11 API providers). At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.45 per million tokens, cheaper than 63% of the 360 priced models we track.
What is the context window of Qwen3 Coder Next?
Qwen3 Coder Next accepts up to 262,144 tokens per request and can write up to 65,536 tokens in one response.
How good is Qwen3 Coder Next?
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Qwen3 Coder Next yet.
Is Qwen3 Coder Next open source?
Yes. Alibaba (Qwen) publishes the weights, so it can be downloaded and self-hosted.
What inputs does Qwen3 Coder Next support?
Qwen3 Coder Next accepts text and replies in text. It is not a dedicated reasoning model, supports tool calling and can return structured JSON output.
When was Qwen3 Coder Next released?
Alibaba (Qwen) released Qwen3 Coder Next on Feb 3, 2026. Its training data runs to Sep 2025.
What are the best alternatives to Qwen3 Coder Next?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are GLM-4.6V (Z.ai (Zhipu), $0.30 / $0.90), MiniMax-M2 Her (MiniMax, $0.30 / $1.20), Mercury 2 (Inception, $0.25 / $0.75) and Seed 1.8 (ByteDance Seed, $0.119 / $1.19).