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Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct

Arena #167Official publisher releaseOpen weights6.9d #114 → #117

Qwen·#117 of 352 on the current board·cheaper than #113 Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct is a language model from Qwen. It ranks #117 of 352 on ModelCap's current board, with an Index score of 52.4, measured on 2 public benchmarks. Its score range of 47.4–57.4 spans positions #97–#140. It is listed at $0.09 per million input tokens and $1.10 per million output tokens across 2 providers. It reads up to 262K tokens of context, and its weights are openly downloadable.

Figures as of 6 Nov 2026, 20:32 UTC · download the public dataset · methodology

ModelCap Index · Current board
52.4#117
Measured on 2 public benchmarks · range 47.4–57.4
Evidence as of 28 Oct 2026, 00:00 UTC
Market Gravity
28.2Increased by 0.3
Secondary market signal
Input
$0.09
per 1M tokens
Output
$1.10
per 1M tokens
Context
262K
tokens
Providers
2
4 endpoints

Providers

Uptime measured over the last 30 minutes
ProviderInputOutputContextQuantUptime
DeepInfrafp8/flexCheapest$0.072$0.88262Kfp8—
DeepInfrafp8$0.09$1.10262Kfp8100.0%
Parasailfp8$0.10$1.10262Kfp8100.0%
DeepInfrafp8/priority$0.135$1.65262Kfp8100.0%

Hugging Face Inference Providers

Exact repository identity

Provider economics and telemetry published by the Hugging Face Router. These are operational signals, not benchmark results.

ProviderInputOutputContextTTFTThroughputFeatures
deepinfra
live
$0.09$1.10262K559 ms106.5 tok/stools
featherless-ai
live
——————

Reported evaluation leads (8)

Not independent measurement

Structured rows reported in this exact model repository at the pinned revision below. They are the publisher talking about itself: never measured evidence, never a score input on their own. They remain quarantined until dataset revision, harness, configuration and identity pass ModelCap’s independent admission review.

Dataset / taskMetricValueRevisionProvenance
google/physical-engineerings-last-exam
overall-score
—2.6
Unpinned
not published
Reported
Quarantined
Idavidrein/gpqa
gpqa_diamond
—72.9
Unpinned
not published
Reported
Quarantined
thamilvendhan/signalbench
src
—0.5833
Unpinned
not published
Reported
Quarantined
thamilvendhan/signalbench
time
—0.8333
Unpinned
not published
Reported
Quarantined
thamilvendhan/signalbench
access_deny
—0.5
Unpinned
not published
Reported
Quarantined
thamilvendhan/signalbench
memory_label
—0.4167
Unpinned
not published
Reported
Quarantined
thamilvendhan/signalbench
injection
—0.5833
Unpinned
not published
Reported
Quarantined
thamilvendhan/signalbench
bot_policy
—0.5833
Unpinned
not published
Reported
Quarantined

ModelCap Index · Current board

Methodology
52.4
Measured on 2 public benchmarks
Current board
#117 of 352
Score range
47.4–57.4
Rank range
#97–#140
Evidence as of
28 Oct 2026, 00:00 UTC
Benchmarks used
Arena Coding, Arena Overall
Technical details
Public rank basis
Measured (measured)
Evidence label
Measured · 2 public benchmark observations across 2 boards
Index support
63.1% · strong
Identity binding
Exact catalogue product · qwen/qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct · aggregates disclosed benchmark configurations · endpoint configuration not claimed · artifact metadata Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct@9c7f2fbe84465e40164a94cc16cd30b6999b0cc7 (not the evaluation revision)
Index observations used
2
Qualified Index evidence point
52.4
Bayesian Evidence Score · measured evidence input only

BES normalizes admitted public benchmark evidence for measured Index rows. Its legacy score and observables prior do not define the public language rank.

Observed capability
52.4
Evidence status
confirmed · 77% mass
General preference
52.5
Coding
51.5
Agents & tools
—
Reasoning
—
Evidence breadth
92%
Evidence coverage
63%
Market and catalogue signals · secondary, never the language Index rank
Usage (OpenRouter popularity)
10.7
Liquidity (providers × uptime)
55.0
Open reach (HF downloads)
50.7
Surface (context / tools / modalities)
50.3
Freshness
20.1
  • · OpenRouter popularity #182
  • · 2 live providers
  • · HF 30d downloads 129415
  • · Catalogue: context 262144, tools
  • · First seen 2025-09-11

These adoption and deployment observations remain context only. They do not change this model's ModelCap Index score or rank.

BES evidence selected · measured input only

The bounded 0–100 capability score blends each source’s competitive placement with its published achievement, then combines capability families. Evidence breadth adds a modest uncertainty adjustment; price and popularity are not part of benchmark-led rank.

Deployment readiness

Metadata index
84.6
strong · 94% metadata coverage
Not capability
Artifact reproducibility
85.0
Access & legal clarity
100.0
Deployability
95.0
Evaluation provenance
53.0

Not yet published: the base model it derives from, pinned evaluation dataset versions.

A metadata completeness and deployability index—not a safety certification, quality grade, or production-readiness claim.

Market activity

Venue coverage
Market Gravity
28.2
OpenRouter weekly popularity
#182 of 339

Market Gravity uses OpenRouter’s full-catalogue popularity order. Sparse Vercel top-ten observations appear only when published and do not affect the score.

Arena preference

Status
Ranked
Source
LMArena
Official rank
#167 of 419
Rating
1398.5
95% confidence interval
1394–1403
Votes
23K
Source published at
28 Oct 2026, 00:00 UTC
Category
overall
Identity match confidence
100%

Market Gravity breakdown

Usage55%
10.7

OpenRouter weekly popularity across the full model catalogue.

Liquidity25%
55.0

Independent providers versus the model's open or closed cohort, weighted by uptime.

Open reach15%
50.7

Hugging Face 30-day downloads for open models; neutral for closed models.

Freshness5%
20.1

Time since first public availability, on a six-month half-life.

Specification

Model ID
qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct
Context window
262K tokens
Declared output cap
16K tokens

OpenRouter catalogue or provider-endpoint declaration. Limits can vary by provider and prompt length; a model-wide maximum has not been independently verified. OpenRouter metadata

Inputs
Text
Outputs
Text
Tokenizer
Qwen3
Cached input tokens
Not offered
First seen on OpenRouter
11 Sept 2025
Knowledge cutoff
2025-09-30

Capabilities

  • Not supported: Reasoning
  • Supported: Tool use
  • Supported: Structured output
  • Supported: Response format
  • Not supported: Moderated

Weights & access

Open weights. Downloadable weights are published under an OSI or free-culture license in the current repository metadata. This describes weight availability, not whether the full training stack qualifies as Open Source AI.

Access
Open weights
Licence
apache-2.0
Pinned revision
9c7f2fbe8446
Parameters
81.3B
Architecture
Qwen3NextForCausalLM
Model type
qwen3_next
Hugging Face downloads (30d)
129K
Downloads (all time)
16.7M
Likes
1K
Repository updated
17 Sept 2025, 06:57 UTC

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Arena coding leaderboardArena (LMArena)14441436–1453#165 of 414Default28 Oct 2026

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Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct: common questions

How does Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct rank among AI models?

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct holds ModelCap Index position #117 of 352 ranked language models as of 6 November 2026, with an Index score of 52.4 (interval 47.4–57.4); evidence: measured. The Index combines public benchmark boards with published uncertainty; the methodology page explains the weighting.

How much does Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct cost per 1M tokens?

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct is listed at $0.09 per 1M input tokens and $1.10 per 1M output tokens as of 6 November 2026; the lowest output price among 2 providers is $0.88 on DeepInfra. Prices come from the OpenRouter catalogue and re-observe on every refresh. For 1,000 requests using 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each, the listed rates imply $0.73 total (2M input + 0.5M output). This excludes caching, batch discounts, prompt-length tiers, tool charges and retries; verify the chosen endpoint's rate and limits before budgeting.

What is the context window of Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct?

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct has a published context window of 262K tokens (262,144). The snapshot lists a 16,384 token catalogue-declared route output cap. OpenRouter catalogue or provider-endpoint declaration. Limits can vary by provider and prompt length; a model-wide maximum has not been independently verified. The providers table lists each endpoint's context limit.

Is Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct open-weight?

Open weights (apache-2.0). Downloadable weights are published under an OSI or free-culture license in the current repository metadata. This describes weight availability, not whether the full training stack qualifies as Open Source AI. The repository is Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct on Hugging Face.

Which API providers serve Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct?

2 providers serve Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct through OpenRouter as of 6 November 2026: DeepInfra and Parasail. Each provider's price, context limit, quantization and measured uptime are in the providers table above.

Which benchmarks has Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct been evaluated on?

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct has published results on 2 public boards tracked by ModelCap as of 6 November 2026: Arena text 1399 (#167 of 419) and Arena coding 1444 (#165 of 414). Each board page ranks every tracked model on that benchmark. The ModelCap Index scores the results its methodology admits, with published uncertainty, and shows reference boards without scoring them.

How does Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct compare with Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507?

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct ranks #117 (Index 52.4) and Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 ranks #113 (Index 52.8) on the ModelCap Index as of 6 November 2026. The head-to-head page lines up their benchmarks, listed prices, context windows and provider counts side by side.

When was Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct released?

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct first appeared in the catalogue on 11 Sept 2025, with a published knowledge cutoff of 2025-09-30. It is the current version in its family. Rank and price movements since then are recorded on the site's changes feed.