Qwen · Open weights
Qwen3 Coder Next
Qwen3 Coder Next is an open-weight coding model built on Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base (hybrid attention + MoE). It is agentically trained at scale on executable tasks and environment interaction, delivering strong coding and tool-use performance at lower inference cost. Native 256K context.
- Tools
- Structured output
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.25
- Output
- $0.80
- Cache read
- $0.0798
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 262.1K
- Max output
- 65.5K
- Average output (7 days)
- 182 tokens
- Longer than 20% of 465 models
Side by side
Qwen3 Coder Next compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Qwen3 Coder NextQwenThis model | Qwen 3.8 27B NovelistQwenRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Qwen | Qwen |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Open weights |
| Added | Dec 8, 2025 | Oct 5, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 262.14K | 262.14K |
| Max output | 65.54KBest | 32.77K |
| Average output | 182 tokens | 745 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.25 | $0.10Best |
| Output | $0.80 | $0.60Best |
| Cache read | $0.0798 | $0.05Best |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 119.9 tok/sBest | 35.0 tok/s |
| Time to first token | 1.6 sBest | 3.1 s |
| Request success (24h) | 92.2% | 98.2%Best |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 9.2 | — |
| Coding Index | 36.2 | — |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | No | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | No | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | No |
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Qwen3 Coder Next
- Qwen 3.8 27B Novelist
Intelligence Index
- Qwen3 Coder Next9.2
- Qwen 3.8 27B Novelist—
Qwen3 Coder Next: Better than 17% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- Qwen3 Coder Next: 36.2
- Qwen 3.8 27B Novelist: —
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Qwen3 Coder Next: 1.1%
- Qwen 3.8 27B Novelist: —
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Qwen3 Coder Next: 0.0%
- Qwen 3.8 27B Novelist: —
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Qwen3 Coder Next: 404 Elo
- Qwen 3.8 27B Novelist: —
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Qwen3 Coder Next: 513 Elo
- Qwen 3.8 27B Novelist: —
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Qwen3 Coder Next: 2.6%
- Qwen 3.8 27B Novelist: —
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Qwen3 Coder Next: 47.0%
- Qwen 3.8 27B Novelist: —
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Qwen3 Coder Next: 10.1%
- Qwen 3.8 27B Novelist: —
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Qwen3 Coder Next: 73.7%
- Qwen 3.8 27B Novelist: —
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Qwen3 Coder Next: 35.2%
- Qwen 3.8 27B Novelist: —
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Qwen3 Coder Next: 0.0%
- Qwen 3.8 27B Novelist: —
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Qwen3 Coder Next: 36.2%
- Qwen 3.8 27B Novelist: —
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Qwen3 Coder Next: 18.2%
- Qwen 3.8 27B Novelist: —
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Qwen3 Coder Next: 79.5%
- Qwen 3.8 27B Novelist: —
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Qwen3 Coder Next: 47.0%
- Qwen 3.8 27B Novelist: —
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Throughput
- 119.9 tok/s
- Faster than 68% of 251 models
- Time to first token
- 1.6 s
- Quicker than 86% of 251 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 96.8%
- About $0.0853 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 92.2%
- Unstable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "qwen/qwen3-coder-next",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="qwen/qwen3-coder-next",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Qwen
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