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Qwen 3 Next 80B A3B Thinking

Alibaba

Released
September 9, 2025
Data date
September 8, 2026
Benchmark-Meta-Score
Unavailable
No independent results
Speed
194.1 tokens/s
Output throughput
Price
Input · Output / 1M tokens
Input
Text
Output
Text

Qwen 3 Next 80B A3B Thinking is the Thinking checkpoint in the Qwen3-Next family. Only 3 billion of its 80 billion parameters are active per token. Its native context is 262,144 tokens, with documented extension to 1,010,000.

Qwen 3 Next 80B A3B Instruct provides direct responses without visible reasoning. The two variants share the MoE foundation. Their weights use Apache 2.0.

Specifications and access

SpecificationValue and source
Weights
Open weightsSource
Access
API, LocalSource
Parameters
Active parameters
Context window
262,144 tokensSource
Weights repository
Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-ThinkingSource
License
Apache-2.0Source
Architecture
Qwen3 causal language model with sparse MoE and 8 activated expertsSource
Input
TextSource
Output
TextSource
Reasoning mode
thinking modeSource
Tool calling
Structured output
Native context window
262,144 tokensSource
Maximum context window
1,010,000 tokensSource
Parameters
80 BSource
Active parameters
Languages
119 languages and dialectsSource
Repository created
2025-09-09 (Repository creation date is a precise publication proxy, but may differ from the public announcement date or an individual checkpoint's first availability.)Source
Training tokens
36 trillionSource