Using Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking on Together AI
Implementation guide · Qwen3 · Alibaba
Together AI exposes Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking through model ID Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking. Use the setup steps, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.
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Quick Start
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- 2Use the Together AI SDK or REST API to call
Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking— see the documentation for request format.
Code Examples
pip install togetherTOGETHER_API_KEYQwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-ThinkingTogether uses "organization/model-name" format, e.g. "meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct" or "Qwen/QwQ-32B". See the Together model catalog for the exact ID.
from together import Together
client = Together() # reads TOGETHER_API_KEY from env
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Capabilities
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.