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Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking)
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking)
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.15
- Output
- $0.65
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 256K
- Max output
- 32.8K
Side by side
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking) compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking)QwenThis model | GPT 5.4 MiniOpenAIRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Qwen | OpenAI |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Efficient |
| Added | Jan 1, 2024 | Mar 17, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 256K | 400KBest |
| Max output | 32.77K | 128KBest |
| Average output | — | 172 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.15Best | $0.75 |
| Output | $0.65Best | $4.50 |
| Cache read | — | $0.075 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | — | 131.1 tok/s |
| Time to first token | — | 1.2 s |
| Request success (24h) | — | 100.0% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 11.2Best | 11.1 |
| Coding Index | 17.4 | — |
| Math Index | 84.3 | — |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | No | Yes |
| Tools | No | Yes |
| Vision | No | Yes |
| Structured output | No | Yes |
| PDF input | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | none, low, medium, high, xhigh |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking)
- GPT 5.4 Mini
Intelligence Index
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking)11.2
- GPT 5.4 Mini11.1
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking): Better than 24% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking): 17.4
- GPT 5.4 Mini: —
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking): 84.3
- GPT 5.4 Mini: —
Agentic work
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking): 128 Elo
- GPT 5.4 Mini: 589 EloTop
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking): 63.7%Top
- GPT 5.4 Mini: 37.0%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking): 12.6%Top
- GPT 5.4 Mini: 5.9%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking): 75.9%Top
- GPT 5.4 Mini: 60.6%
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking): 82.4%
- GPT 5.4 Mini: —
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking): 60.7%Top
- GPT 5.4 Mini: 38.8%
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking): 78.4%
- GPT 5.4 Mini: —
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking): 84.3%
- GPT 5.4 Mini: —
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking): 9.8%
- GPT 5.4 Mini: 18.2%Top
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking): 41.5%Top
- GPT 5.4 Mini: 23.4%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking): 63.7%Top
- GPT 5.4 Mini: 37.0%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking)
- GPT 5.4 Mini
| Leaderboard | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking) | GPT 5.4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1–3) | Not in top 20 | #12 · 51.2% |
| GPQA Diamond | Not in top 20 | #15 · 86.9% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Epoch AI leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Epoch AI
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-next-80b-a3b-thinking",
"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-next-80b-a3b-thinking",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Qwen
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