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Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is an open-weight model from Alibaba, released Sep 11, 2025. It ranks #127 of 351 on the LMArena text leaderboard with a rating of 1417. It costs $0.09 per million input tokens and $1.10 per million output tokens, with a 256K-token context window.

LMArena text1417−1 in 30 days
Rank#127/351
95% interval1412–1422
Votes22.8K
Developer
Alibaba Qwen
Released
Sep 11, 2025
Context window
256K
Price in / out, per 1M tokens
$0.09 / $1.10
Weights
Open · Apache 2.0
Inputs
Text
Reasoning
No
Tool use
Yes
Hugging Face downloads, 30 days
153.5K
Hugging Face likes
1.1K
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct, LMArena text rating over time
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LatestQwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct 1417

The rating LMArena published at each update since Sep 17, 2025. Ratings move as votes come in and new models join.

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ChineseLanguages1460110 / 3281.7K
SpanishLanguages143592 / 249688
GermanLanguages1417104 / 261491
FrenchLanguages1414141 / 252388
JapaneseLanguages139584 / 236319

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Alibaba Qwen

Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen team releases a broad family of open-weight models, from small to frontier scale. Founded 2023 (Qwen), based in Hangzhou. qwenlm.github.io

Questions

Who makes Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct?

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is made by Alibaba Qwen, founded 2023 (Qwen) and based in Hangzhou.

How much does Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct cost?

$0.09 per million input tokens and $1.10 per million output tokens, at its provider’s list price.

What is Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct’s context window?

256K tokens (262,144).

How does Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct rank?

#127 of 351 on LMArena’s text leaderboard, rated 1417 (95% interval 1412–1422) from 22,755 votes, as of Oct 22, 2026.

Is Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct open source?

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct has open weights under the Apache 2.0 license, downloadable from Hugging Face (Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct).

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