Qwen3-Coder-Next
qwen3-coder-next
Last refreshed 2026-05-11. Next refresh: weekly.
Qwen3-Coder-Next is worth evaluating for coding, rag, and agents when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Decision context: Coding task fit, 2 tracked provider routes, and research from 2026-05-04.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating coding, rag, and agents
- Workloads that can use a 256K context window
- Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
Cheapest output
$0.800
OpenRouter per 1M tokens
Provider routes
2
Tracked API hosts
Quality / dollar
Unknown
No task benchmark coverage yet
Freshness
2026-05-04
Researched 17d ago
Top use-case fit
Coding
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
RAG
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Agents
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 2| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.120 | $0.800 | Serverless |
| AWS Bedrock | $0.500 | $1.20 | Serverless |
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
About
Qwen3-Coder-Next is an ultra-sparse Mixture-of-Experts coding agent model from Alibaba's Qwen team, released February 3, 2026 under Apache 2.0. It has 80B total parameters with 3B active at inference, delivering substantially higher throughput than comparable dense models. It supports a native 256K context window, function calling, structured outputs, Claude Code, Qwen Code, Cline, Kilo, and other scaffold templates. Benchmarks reported in the DAT-3724 datapack include SWE-Bench Pro 44.3%, SWE-Bench Resolved 70.6%, and TerminalBench 2 36.2%.
Qwen3-Coder-Next has a 250K-token context window.
Qwen3-Coder-Next input tokens at $0.12/1M, output at $0.8/1M.
