Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B Thinking

Reasoning variant of Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B with chain-of-thought, on the same hybrid attention architecture of 80B total, 3B active and 512 experts.

Params: 80B, 3B active
Context: 262K tokens
Max output: 66K
License: Apache 2.0

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Hosted API price

List price via Alibaba Cloud · per 1M tokens

USD

Input: $0.15 /1M
Output: $1.20 /1M
Hosted by: 2 providers

Hosted API pricing

How we price

Order

Providers are listed cheapest input rate first, then by output rate, a tie going to the creator's own listing. A provider that lists the model without a published rate sits at the end.

Prices

Base-tier, on-demand rates in USD per 1M tokens, converted at ECB reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. Cached-input and batch rates show only where a provider publishes them. "Cheapest" marks the one provider with the lowest input and output pair; a tie wears no badge.

Cost

Input rate times the input tokens plus output rate times the output tokens, at the monthly volume set above the table. Cached-input, batch, long-context and reasoning-token billing are not modelled.

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Every provider serving Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B Thinking, cheapest input first. Set your monthly volume to see what each would bill.

Input M Output M

Every provider serving Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B Thinking, with its price per 1M input and output tokens and what the volume above would cost
Provider	Input /1M	Output /1M	Cost at 10M in + 2M out	Link
Alibaba Cloud Creator	$0.15	$1.20	$3.90	Visit website
Lyceum	$0.15	$1.20	$3.90	Visit website

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-Next-80B-A3B Thinking 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 $374 a month.

That costs the same as roughly 1B tokens a month on Alibaba Cloud's API. Self-hosting is more expensive below that volume.

Single node ≤ 8

What it costs to self-host Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B Thinking at each precision: the memory it needs, the cheapest rental that holds it, that rental's month and the API volume it pays off at
Precision	Memory	Cheapest fit (32K context)(Full 262K context)	Cost /mo	Break-even vs API
4-bit INT4 / FP4	48 GB72 GB	4× RTX 4060 Ti	$374$461	1B tokens /mo1B tokens /mo
8-bit FP8 / INT8	85 GB95 GB	8× RTX 3060	$461$749	1B tokens /mo2B tokens /mo
16-bit FP16 / BF16	165 GB188 GB	8× RTX 3090	$1,440$3,283	4B tokens /mo10B 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. Pricing methodology.

Similarly priced models

The models nearest Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B Thinking by blended rate, each at its own cheapest provider.

Models priced nearest Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B Thinking per 1M tokens, each at its cheapest provider
Model	Blended /1M	Input /1M	Output /1M	Context	Cutoff	vs Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B Thinking
Qwen2.5-7B Instruct Alibaba Cloud	$0.30	$0.30	$0.30	33K		−8%
Qwen3-235B-A22B FP8 Alibaba Cloud	$0.30	$0.20	$0.80	33K		−8%
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B Alibaba Cloud	$0.3153	$0.172	$1.032	262K		−3%
MiniMax-M3 MiniMax	$0.3167	$0.20	$0.90	1M		−3%
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B Instruct Alibaba Cloud	$0.325	$0.15	$1.20	262K		0%
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B Thinking This model Alibaba Cloud	$0.325	$0.15	$1.20	262K
Qwen-MT-Plus Alibaba Cloud	$0.3333	$0.25	$0.75	16K		+3%
Qwen2.5-VL-72B Instruct Alibaba Cloud	$0.3333	$0.25	$0.75	33K		+3%
DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek	$0.3417	$0.25	$0.80	131K		+5%
Qwen3.6-27B Alibaba Cloud	$0.35	$0.30	$0.60	262K		+8%
GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI	$0.3667	$0.20	$1.20	1M	Feb 2026	+13%

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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Capabilities

What Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B Thinking accepts and can do, as published by Alibaba Cloud.

Text Accepts and generates natural-language text.
Reasoning Thinks before it answers, always on or as a switchable mode.
Function calling Connect to external tools, APIs, and systems.
Structured output Return responses in structured formats like JSON.

Common questions

What is Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B Thinking good for?

Multi-step reasoning with a chain of thought, which Alibaba recommends for highly complex tasks. Apache 2.0 weights, the same 80B mixture of experts with 3B active, on a single high-memory GPU.

When is Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B Thinking not a good fit?

Short requests that do not need a reasoning trace, since it runs in thinking mode only. No image or video input.

What is the cheapest way to run Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B Thinking?

Hosted, unless you push serious volume. Alibaba Cloud charges $0.15 in / $1.20 out per 1M tokens. The cheapest rental that fits is 4x RTX 4060 Ti at $374 a month, which costs the same as about 1B tokens a month on that API.

Can I self-host Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B Thinking?

Yes. The weights are Apache 2.0 licensed. At 4-bit it needs about 48 GB of GPU memory, which starts at roughly $374 a month on the cheapest rental that fits.