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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.

LMArena text1368+0 in 30 days
Rank#189/351
95% interval1362–1374
Votes13.5K
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
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking, LMArena text rating over time
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LatestQwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking 1368

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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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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