Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking: API pricing, providers and specs
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking is a text model by Alibaba. 6 providers serve it, from $1.20 to $1.50 /1M; the lowest price is at Vercel AI Gateway.
How Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Mid-priced: its lowest price is $1.20 /1M against a median of $1.10; 52% of comparable models cost less.
- Its 262K-token context window is larger than 45% of them (median 262K), about 390 pages of text.
- 6 providers serve it; 69% of comparable models have fewer.
- Its weights are open under the Apache 2.0 license: commercial use allowed.
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.15/1M | $1.20/1M | — | 262K |
| OpenRouter | $0.15/1M | From$1.20/1M | — | 262K |
 Requesty | $0.15/1M | From$1.20/1M | $0.15/1M | 128K |
| AI/ML API | $0.159/1M | $1.27/1M | — | — |
 AIHubMix | $0.142/1M | $1.42/1M | — | 256K |
 Jiekou.AI | $0.15/1M | $1.50/1M | — | — |
- Vercel AI Gateway$1.20
- OpenRouterFrom$1.20
- RequestyFrom$1.20
- AI/ML API$1.27
- AIHubMix$1.42
- Jiekou.AI$1.50
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Alibaba
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 262K≈ 390 pages of text
- Max output
- 236K
- Capabilities
- JSON, Reasoning, Tool calling
- Released
- Sep 9, 2025
- License
- Apache 2.0commercial use allowed
- Open weights
- Yes, downloadable
- Parameters
- 81B
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinkingthis model | $1.20/1M | 262K | — | 6 |
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| GLM-5.2 | $1.80/1M | 1M | 1604 | 44 |
| Grok Build 0.1 | $1.60/1M | 256K | — | 18 |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | $3/1M | 1.05M | 1585 | 30 |
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The lowest price for Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking is $1.20 /1M, at Vercel AI Gateway.
Vercel AI Gateway, at $1.20 /1M. 6 providers serve Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking; the table above lists every one with its price.
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking reads up to 262K tokens per request and writes up to 236K.
Yes. Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking's weights can be downloaded from its maker's Hugging Face page, under the Apache 2.0 license.
About 81B, as the safetensors metadata of its official Hugging Face repo states.
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