Alibaba (Qwen) · Released Sep 2025Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
Qwen instruction model for multilingual chat, reasoning, and tool use.
- Capability
- —No ECI score yet
- Input
- $0.50per 1M tokens
- Output
- $2.00per 1M tokens
- Context
- 131K33K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $0.50per million tokens
- Output
- $2.00per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $0.875pricier than 52% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $2.00 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $22.50 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $225.00 |
Official Alibaba API price, as listed on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct yet.
The details
- Lab
- Alibaba (Qwen)
- Released
- Sep 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- Apr 2025
- Context window
- 131,072 tokens
- Max output
- 32,768 tokens
- Inputs
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- No
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- No
- Weights
- Open weights
- API model ID
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instructon Alibaba- Availability
- 13 API providerslisted on models.dev
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About Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
How much does Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct cost?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct costs $0.50 input / $2.00 output per million tokens (official Alibaba API price). At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.875 per million tokens, more expensive than 52% of the 360 priced models we track.
What is the context window of Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct accepts up to 131,072 tokens per request and can write up to 32,768 tokens in one response.
How good is Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct yet.
Is Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct open source?
Yes. Alibaba (Qwen) publishes the weights, so it can be downloaded and self-hosted.
What inputs does Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct support?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct accepts text and replies in text. It is not a dedicated reasoning model, supports tool calling.
When was Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct released?
Alibaba (Qwen) released Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct on Sep 2025. Its training data runs to Apr 2025.
What are the best alternatives to Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are GLM-4.5V (Z.ai (Zhipu), $0.60 / $1.80), Mistral Medium 3.1 (Mistral AI, $0.40 / $2.00), Ling-1T (inclusionAI, $0.57 / $2.29) and Apertus 70B (Swiss AI, $0.82 / $2.42).