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Why use Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking on OpenRouter?
OpenRouter offers Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking with pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.15/1M input tokens. OpenRouter is a multi-provider LLM aggregator offering unified API access to 300+ models from all major labs and emerging providers, with automatic failover for reliability.
Compare Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking across 4 providers to find the best fit for your use caseInput / 1M
$0.15
Output / 1M
$1.20
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model: qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinkingModel ID
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Compare Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.15 | $1.20 |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.15 | $1.20 |
| Together AI | — | — |
| Fireworks AI | — | — |
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.15 |
| Output tokens | $1.20 |
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Reasoning
About Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking is the thinking-mode variant of Alibaba Qwen's Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B, an 80B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 3B active parameters per token and a hybrid Gated DeltaNet + Gated Attention architecture. It was announced on 2025-09-11 alongside the Instruct variant, with Apache-2.0 open weights on Hugging Face.
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Model Specs
Released2025-09-11
Parameters80B-A3B
ArchitectureMixture of Experts