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Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking is a reasoning-first chat model in the Qwen3-Next line that outputs structured “thinking” traces by default. $0.15 per million input tokens, $1.20 per million output tokens. 262,144 token context window, maximum output of 32,768 tokens. Higher uptime with 2 providers. Includes independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis.

Overview

Model specifications

Context
262,144 tokens
Maximum output
32,768 tokens
Architecture
text->text
Tokenizer
Qwen3
Knowledge cutoff
2025-09-30
Moderated
No
OPENROUTER

Complete pricing

Synchronized OpenRouter rates. Token prices are shown per one million tokens.

Input
$0.15
/M tokens
Output
$1.2
/M tokens
API

Model configuration

Reasoning

Moderated
Yes
Default parameters
No
API

Quick start

Call this exact model ID through OpenRouter’s OpenAI-compatible API.

curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'
Capabilities

InputOutput

Input
text
Output
text
Reasoning

No

API

Supported API parameters

frequency_penaltyinclude_reasoninglogprobsmax_tokenspresence_penaltyreasoningrepetition_penaltyresponse_formatseedstopstructured_outputstemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_ktop_logprobstop_p
Available providers

2 providers

Live providers on OpenRouter

Provider availability, latency, throughput and routing can change continuously. Open the source page for current operational data.

OpenRouter

Alibaba

unknown
Context
131K
Maximum output
33K
Input
$0.150
Output
$1.20
Cache read
Not provided
Cache write
Not provided

Google

unknown
Context
262K
Maximum output
236K
Input
$0.150
Output
$1.20
Cache read
Not provided
Cache write
Not provided
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