What is Qwen3-Coder-Next good for?

Coding agents and local development, from an 80B mixture of experts with 3B active. Apache 2.0 weights, servable on a single high-memory GPU.

When is Qwen3-Coder-Next not a good fit?

Tasks that need a reasoning trace: it is non-thinking only. No image or video input, no built-in web search, though a host or your own tool loop can add one, and it takes more memory to serve than the Coder-30B-A3B sibling.

What is the cheapest way to run Qwen3-Coder-Next?

Hosted, unless you push serious volume. Alibaba Cloud charges $0.30 in / $1.50 out per 1M tokens. The cheapest rental that fits is 4x RTX 4060 Ti at $317 a month, which costs the same as about 634M tokens a month on that API.

Can I self-host Qwen3-Coder-Next?

Yes. The weights are Apache 2.0 licensed. At 4-bit it needs about 48 GB of GPU memory, which starts at roughly $317 a month on the cheapest rental that fits.

Open weights · Apache 2.0

Qwen3-Coder-Next

Code-specialized model on the Qwen3-Next architecture, an 80B MoE with 3B active, trained with reinforcement learning on executable tasks.

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List price via Alibaba Cloud

Input: $0.30 / 1M tokens
Output: $1.50 / 1M tokens

Cheapest: $0.08 / $0.98 per 1M tokens via Geodd

3 providers

Key Specifications

Context window: 262K tokens
Max output: 66K tokens
Parameters: 80B, 3B active
Inputs: Text

Capabilities Show details: Function calling Connect to external tools, APIs, and systems. Structured output Return responses in structured formats like JSON.

Hosted API pricing

Input tokens M Output tokens M

Provider	Input / 1M tokens	Output / 1M tokens	Cost at 10M in + 2M out
Geodd Cheapest	$0.08	$0.98	$2.76	View
Novita	$0.20	$1.50	$5.00	View
Alibaba Cloud Creator	$0.30	$1.50	$6.00	View

Heads up: Base-tier, on-demand rates per 1M tokens; cached, batch and long-context tiers excluded. A provider may serve a shorter context or a quantized build than the creator's release. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Estimated cost to self-host

Qwen3-Coder-Next needs about 48 GB of GPU memory at 4-bit with 32K context. The cheapest rental that fits is 4× RTX 4060 Ti at about $317 a month.

That costs the same as roughly 634M tokens a month on Alibaba Cloud's API. Self-hosting is more expensive below that volume.

Single node ≤ 8

Precision	Memory	Cheapest fit (32K context)(Full 262K context)	Cost / mo	Break-even vs API
4-bitINT4 / FP4	48 GB72 GB	4× RTX 4060 Ti	$317$346	634M tokens / mo691M tokens / mo
8-bitFP8 / INT8	85 GB95 GB	8× RTX 3060	$346$634	691M tokens / mo1B tokens / mo
16-bitFP16 / BF16	165 GB188 GB	8× RTX 3090	$979$3,168	2B tokens / mo6B tokens / mo

Estimates based on median on-demand rates for Nvidia GPUs. Memory is weights plus KV cache for one request, using FP8 KV cache where supported and FP16/BF16 otherwise. Break-even assumes a 5:1 input-to-output ratio. No guarantee of runtime support, usable performance, or that a matching quantized build exists. How we estimate costs.

Similarly priced models

The models nearest Qwen3-Coder-Next by blended rate, each at its own cheapest provider.

Model	Blended / 1M	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Context	Cutoff	vs Qwen3-Coder-Next
Command R 08-2024 Cohere	$0.225	$0.15	$0.60	128K	Jun 2024	−2%
GPT-4o Mini OpenAI	$0.225	$0.15	$0.60	128K	Oct 2023	−2%
MiniMax-M2.7 MiniMax	$0.225	$0.15	$0.60	205K		−2%
Mistral Small 4 Mistral	$0.225	$0.15	$0.60	256K		−2%
Qwen3.8-27B Alibaba Cloud	$0.225	$0.17	$0.50	262K		−2%
Qwen3-Coder-Next This model Alibaba Cloud	$0.23	$0.08	$0.98	262K
Llama 4 Scout Meta	$0.24	$0.16	$0.64	10M	Aug 2024	+4%
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B Alibaba Cloud	$0.2533	$0.12	$0.92	262K		+10%
Llama 4 Maverick Meta	$0.2833	$0.20	$0.70	1M	Aug 2024	+23%
Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B Instruct Alibaba Cloud	$0.2833	$0.20	$0.70	262K		+23%
Muse Glimmer 30B Meta	$0.30	$0.20	$0.80	131K	Jan 2026	+30%

Prices are USD per 1M tokens at each model's cheapest listed provider. Blended is the cost of 10M input plus 2M output tokens, spread over the 12M.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Qwen3-Coder-Next good for?: Coding agents and local development, from an 80B mixture of experts with 3B active. Apache 2.0 weights, servable on a single high-memory GPU.
When is Qwen3-Coder-Next not a good fit?: Tasks that need a reasoning trace: it is non-thinking only. No image or video input, no built-in web search, though a host or your own tool loop can add one, and it takes more memory to serve than the Coder-30B-A3B sibling.
What is the cheapest way to run Qwen3-Coder-Next?: Hosted, unless you push serious volume. Alibaba Cloud charges $0.30 in / $1.50 out per 1M tokens. The cheapest rental that fits is 4x RTX 4060 Ti at $317 a month, which costs the same as about 634M tokens a month on that API.
Can I self-host Qwen3-Coder-Next?: Yes. The weights are Apache 2.0 licensed. At 4-bit it needs about 48 GB of GPU memory, which starts at roughly $317 a month on the cheapest rental that fits.

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