Quick Start
- 1
- 2Use the Vercel AI Gateway SDK or REST API to call
alibaba/qwen3-coder-next— see the documentation for request format. - 3
Code Examples
pip install openaiAI_GATEWAY_API_KEYalibaba/qwen3-coder-nextcreator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],
base_url="https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="alibaba/qwen3-coder-next",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)About Vercel AI Gateway
Vercel AI Gateway is a unified AI proxy providing a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint to 275+ models from 25+ providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Cohere, MiniMax, MoonshotAI, KwaiPilot, Black Forest Labs, Recraft, Voyage AI, NVIDIA, and more. Pricing is pass-through at provider list rates with zero markup. Includes $5/month free tier; paid is pay-as-you-go. Features: automatic provider fallbacks, unified observability, streaming, tool use, vision, embeddings, image/video generation, BYOK mode. Integrates via @ai-sdk/gateway package or plain model ID strings in Vercel AI SDK. API details: API key via Authorization: Bearer <AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY>. Key from Vercel dashboard. Free $5/month credit; paid tier is provider list price with zero markup. BYOK (bring-your-own-key) also supported with no markup or fee. Model IDs use {provider-owner}/{model-name} — e.g., anthropic/claude-opus-4.6, openai/gpt-5.
Vercel AI Gateway is a unified AI proxy providing a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint to 275+ models from 25+ providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Cohere, MiniMax, MoonshotAI, KwaiPilot, Black Forest Labs, Recraft, Voyage AI, NVIDIA, and more. Pricing is pass-through at provider list rates with zero markup. Includes $5/month free tier; paid is pay-as-you-go. Features: automatic provider fallbacks, unified observability, streaming, tool use, vision, embeddings, image/video generation, BYOK mode. Integrates via @ai-sdk/gateway package or plain model ID strings in Vercel AI SDK.
Pricing on Vercel AI Gateway
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.50 |
| Output tokens | $1.20 |
Capabilities
About Qwen3-Coder-Next
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%.