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Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct

qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct

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Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is an instruction-tuned chat model in the Qwen3-Next series optimized for fast, stable responses without “thinking” traces. It targets complex tasks across reasoning, code generation, knowledge QA, and multilingual use, while remaining robust on alignment and formatting. Compared with prior Qwen3 instruct variants, it focuses on higher throughput and stability on ultra-long inputs and multi-turn dialogues, making it well-suited for RAG, tool use, and agentic workflows that require consistent final answers rather than visible chain-of-thought.

The model employs scaling-efficient training and decoding to improve parameter efficiency and inference speed, and has been validated on a broad set of public benchmarks where it reaches or approaches larger Qwen3 systems in several categories while outperforming earlier mid-sized baselines. It is best used as a general assistant, code helper, and long-context task solver in production settings where deterministic, instruction-following outputs are preferred.

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In / Out Price

$0.09 / $1.10per 1M

Context

262K

Released

Sep 11, 2025

Knowledge Cutoff

Sep 2025

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Providers

Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick — Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Exacto (highest tool-calling accuracy).

Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations. Higher percentages are better — and rank percentile shows where this model lands among all models on OpenRouter.

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

Quick Start

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.

About Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct

OpenRouter makes Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct available through a unified, OpenAI-compatible API using the model ID qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct. Requests can be routed across 5 providers, including DeepInfra, Alibaba Cloud Int., Parasail, Google Vertex and NovitaAI, with automatic failover when an endpoint is unavailable.

Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct accepts text and returns text. It has a 262,144-token context window and a maximum output of 16,384 tokens.

On OpenRouter, Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct costs $0.09/M input tokens and $1.10/M output tokens. It was released on September 11, 2025; its knowledge cutoff is September 30, 2025.

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Frequently asked questions

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is an instruction-tuned chat model in the Qwen3-Next series optimized for fast, stable responses without “thinking” traces. It targets complex tasks across reasoning, code generation, knowledge QA, and multilingual use, while remaining robust on alignment and formatting.

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct costs $0.09/M input tokens and $1.10/M output tokens.

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct has a 262,144 token context window. It supports up to 16,384 completion tokens.

Yes. Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct is served by 5 providers on OpenRouter: DeepInfra, Alibaba Cloud Int., Parasail, Google Vertex and NovitaAI. Requests are routed to the best available provider, with automatic failover to the others, and you can pin or exclude providers with provider routing.

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct was released on September 11, 2025. Its knowledge cutoff is September 30, 2025.

$0.09$1.10--0.54s58 tps
97.84%
$0.0975$0.78--0.43s56 tps
100.00%
$0.10$1.10$0.070.86s39 tps
99.96%
$0.15$1.20--0.62s38 tps
99.98%
$0.15$1.50--0.78s35 tps
99.84%

Throughput

58tok/s

P50, best across providers

Latency

0.43s

P50, best provider

AutoExacto Benchmarks
GPQA DiamondTAU-Bench
Alibaba Cloud Int.
71.6%49.8%
auto-routing
70.8%48.0%
Parasail
69.4%48.8%
Google Vertex
70.8%46.9%
DeepInfra
69.7%46.9%
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Uptime (3d)

100.00%

Availability (3d)

99.93%

Availability over the last 3 days

Last 72 hours
Availability 99.93%
3 Days Ago2 Days AgoYesterdayNow

Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability
99.89%
Without Routing
94.12%

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and customization options.

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