Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct

Alibaba Qwen chatcodetool_use Long

API ID: qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct-2509

Input Price
$0.09
/1M tokens
Output Price
$1.10
/1M tokens

About Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct

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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Price Ranking
#848 lowest price among 1240 Chat models

Model Specifications

Context Length
262k
Max Output
262k
Release Date
2025-09-11
Capabilities
chat code tool_use
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Code generation, debugging, code review, refactoring
  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

Consider Alternatives For

  • Image understanding (needs vision capability)

💰 Real-World Cost Examples

Estimated monthly costs for common use cases

Personal AI Assistant
$0.37
/month
50 conversations/day, ~500 tokens each
Code Copilot
$3.07
/month
200 completions/day, ~1k tokens each
Customer Service Bot
$11.25
/month
1000 tickets/day, ~800 tokens each
Data Analysis Pipeline
$15.23
/month
500 analyses/day, ~2k tokens each

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🚀 Quick Start

Get started with Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct API

OpenAI-compatible SDK
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.provider.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct-2509",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)