Using Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking on OpenRouter

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OpenRouter exposes Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking through model ID qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at OpenRouter and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the OpenRouter SDK or REST API to call qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $0.15/1M input, $1.20/1M output tokens. See full pricing.
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Code Examples

See OpenRouter documentation for integration details.

Pricing on OpenRouter

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$0.15
Output tokens$1.20

Capabilities

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

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Provider

OpenRouter

OpenRouter, Inc.

New York, NY, USA