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Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking: price, performance and context

Open Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking by Qwen costs $0.15 per 1M input and $1.20 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 262.1K tokens in one request (≈ 790 pages of text) and scores 11.2 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 146 of 212.

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Updated Oct 09, 2026, 17:42 UTC · qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking

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Key facts

Licence
Open weights: free to download and self-host
Input / 1M tokens
$0.15
Output / 1M tokens
$1.20
Context window
262.1K tokens
Max. output
235.9K tokens
Performance index
11.2 points · rank 146 of 212
Coding index
17.4 points · rank 100 of 119
Agentic index
n/a
Cost at your usage
$0.45 / month
Knowledge cutoff
Sep 2025
In the catalog since
Sep 11, 2025
Capabilities
Reasoning, Tool Calling

What do you get for $10.00?

Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.

TaskCost per taskFor $10.00
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Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out$0.00119,000
Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary$0.0019,100
Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code$0.0024,900
Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go$0.017570

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