
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking is an open-weight model from Alibaba, released Sep 11, 2025. It ranks #189 of 351 on the LMArena text leaderboard with a rating of 1368. It costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens, with a 256K-token context window.
- Developer
- Alibaba Qwen
- Released
- Sep 11, 2025
- Context window
- 256K
- Price in / out, per 1M tokens
- $0.15 / $1.20
- Weights
- Open · Apache 2.0
- Inputs
- Text
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Tool use
- Yes
- Hugging Face downloads, 30 days
- 39.6K
- Hugging Face likes
- 502
The rating LMArena published at each update since Sep 17, 2025. Ratings move as votes come in and new models join.
LMArena, by category
| Leaderboard | Rating | Rank | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| TextLMArena | 1368 | 189 / 351 | 13.5K |
| CodingLMArena | 1392 | 182 / 346 | 2.7K |
| MathLMArena | 1398 | 164 / 339 | 821 |
| Creative writingLMArena | 1314 | 212 / 349 | 1.8K |
| Instruction followingLMArena | 1343 | 196 / 351 | 3.5K |
| Hard promptsLMArena | 1371 | 189 / 351 | 6.7K |
| Multi-turnLMArena | 1346 | 207 / 349 | 2.2K |
| Long queriesLMArena | 1353 | 199 / 330 | 2.9K |
| ExpertLMArena | 1376 | 177 / 305 | 661 |
| Legal and governmentIndustries | 1364 | 195 / 325 | 842 |
| Medicine and healthcareIndustries | 1392 | 166 / 325 | 708 |
| Business and financeIndustries | 1360 | 182 / 344 | 2.5K |
| ChineseLanguages | 1407 | 176 / 328 | 1.1K |
| SpanishLanguages | 1358 | 185 / 249 | 457 |
| GermanLanguages | 1356 | 165 / 261 | 296 |
| FrenchLanguages | 1353 | 191 / 252 | 217 |
| JapaneseLanguages | 1280 | 173 / 236 | 206 |
LMArena, CC BY 4.0, as of Oct 22, 2026. Where a model is rated at several effort levels, its best is shown.
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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-Thinking?
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking is made by Alibaba Qwen, founded 2023 (Qwen) and based in Hangzhou.
How much does Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking cost?
$0.15 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens, at its provider’s list price.
What is Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking’s context window?
256K tokens (262,144).
How does Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking rank?
#189 of 351 on LMArena’s text leaderboard, rated 1368 (95% interval 1362–1374) from 13,473 votes, as of Oct 22, 2026.
Is Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking open source?
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking has open weights under the Apache 2.0 license, downloadable from Hugging Face (Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking).
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