Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking

qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking-2509

Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking is a text‑only model from Qwen with a context window of 262 144 tokens. It supports tool use and reasoning, costs $0.0975 per million input tokens and $0.78 per million output tokens, and its weights are released publicly. The model was released on 2025‑09‑11.

  • tool use
  • structured outputs
  • reasoning
  • open-weight

At a glance

providerqwen
releasedSep 1, 2025
context262K
input / M$0.15

Specifications

What the API gives you

Context window
262K tokens
Max output
33K tokens
Input price
$0.15 / 1M tokens
Output price
$1.20 / 1M tokens
Cache read
Modalities
text → text
Knowledge cutoff
Sep 30, 2025
Released
Sep 1, 2025

Measured evidence

Public benchmark record

LMArena Creative Writing
1312 Elo2026-07-21
LMArena Creative Writing
1311 Elo2026-07-27
LMArena Creative Writing
1311 Elo2026-07-30
LMArena Creative Writing
1312 Elo2026-08-02
LMArena Creative Writing
1312 Elo2026-08-03
LMArena Creative Writing
1311 Elo2026-08-06
LMArena Creative Writing
1312 Elo2026-08-12
LMArena Creative Writing
1313 Elo2026-08-21
LMArena Creative Writing
1314 Elo2026-09-02
LMArena Creative Writing
1315 Elo2026-08-27
LMArena Creative Writing
1314 Elo2026-09-01
LMArena Long Query
1353 Elo2026-07-21
LMArena Long Query
1352 Elo2026-07-27
LMArena Long Query
1352 Elo2026-07-30
LMArena Long Query
1352 Elo2026-08-02
LMArena Long Query
1351 Elo2026-08-06
LMArena Long Query
1352 Elo2026-08-03
LMArena Long Query
1353 Elo2026-08-12
LMArena Long Query
1353 Elo2026-08-21
LMArena Long Query
1353 Elo2026-09-02
LMArena Long Query
1354 Elo2026-08-27
LMArena Long Query
1353 Elo2026-09-01
LMArena Math
1395 Elo2026-07-21
LMArena Math
1396 Elo2026-07-27
LMArena Math
1396 Elo2026-07-30
LMArena Math
1395 Elo2026-08-02
LMArena Math
1395 Elo2026-08-03
LMArena Math
1395 Elo2026-08-06
LMArena Math
1397 Elo2026-08-12
LMArena Math
1396 Elo2026-08-21
LMArena Math
1398 Elo2026-09-01
LMArena Math
1399 Elo2026-08-27
LMArena Text
1370 Elo2026-07-21
LMArena Text
1369 Elo2026-07-27
LMArena Text
1369 Elo2026-07-30
LMArena Text
1369 Elo2026-08-02
LMArena Text
1369 Elo2026-08-10
LMArena Text
1369 Elo2026-08-06
LMArena Text
1369 Elo2026-08-03
LMArena Text
1369 Elo2026-08-21
LMArena Text
1369 Elo2026-08-12
LMArena Text
1369 Elo2026-09-01
LMArena Text
1369 Elo2026-09-02
LMArena Text
1369 Elo2026-08-27

LMArena data licensed CC-BY-4.0. Aider (Apache-2.0) and SWE-bench (MIT) are open. Design Arena uses blind human preference.

Open-weight model on Hugging Face.

Task evidence

How broad is the support?

Each status is exact to this model version and the selected task. Official release claims remain provisional.

  • Best LLM for Business WritingProvisional evidence

    70% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Marketing CopyProvisional evidence

    70% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Chat & RoleplayProvisional evidence

    70% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 70% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Creative WritingProvisional evidence

    60% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for WritingProvisional evidence

    60% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 55% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Reasoning. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 50% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Reasoning. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Competition MathProvisional evidence

    40% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Mathematics or LiveBench Reasoning. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Math & ReasoningProvisional evidence

    40% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Mathematics or LiveBench Reasoning. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best Value LLMProvisional evidence

    36% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 33% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Fast SummariesProvisional evidence

    29% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 25% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best Cheap LLM for High VolumeProvisional evidence

    25% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 25% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Cheapest Capable LLMProvisional evidence

    25% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for TranslationProvisional evidence

    25% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Massive ContextProvisional evidence

    25% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or LongBench v2. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 20% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FACTS Grounding or LiveBench Instruction Following. 4 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for SummarizationProvisional evidence

    20% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FACTS Grounding or LiveBench Instruction Following. 4 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 18% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FACTS Grounding or LMArena Document. 4 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LiveBench Data Analysis. 4 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LiveBench Data Analysis. 4 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 13% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Data Analysis or Route reliability. 2 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Code CompletionProvisional evidence

    13% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Aider Polyglot or LiveBench Coding. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Aider Polyglot or LiveBench Coding. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for CodingProvisional evidence

    10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Aider Polyglot or Design Arena Coding. 8 of 8 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LMArena Agent. 4 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LMArena Agent. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for OCR & DocumentsProvisional evidence

    10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or LMArena Vision. 3 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Reasoning or LMArena Vision. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • 10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or LMArena Vision. 3 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Grounded RAGProvisional evidence

    10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from CRAG or FACTS Grounding. 2 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Charts & DiagramsProvisional evidence

    10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or LMArena Vision. 3 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Document ParsingProvisional evidence

    10% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or LMArena Vision. 3 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Hermes AgentProvisional evidence

    6% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LMArena Agent. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for OpenHandsProvisional evidence

    6% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LMArena Agent. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for GooseProvisional evidence

    6% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LMArena Agent. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for OpenClawProvisional evidence

    6% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LMArena Agent. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best Local LLM for CodingProvisional evidence

    6% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Aider Polyglot or LiveBench Coding. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Agentic CodingProvisional evidence

    5% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Design Arena Full-stack or Design Arena Web-apps. 8 of 8 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Autonomous AgentsProvisional evidence

    5% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Frontier-Bench or LiveBench Agentic Coding. 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for AI AgentsProvisional evidence

    5% of intended weighted task evidence across 0 independent sources; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LiveBench Agentic Coding. 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

Recommendation coverage

Where this model appears

Not currently included in a published recommendation. The task evidence panel above says exactly what is confirmed and what is still missing.

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