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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 | GLM 4.5 AirZ.aiRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Qwen | Z.ai |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Open weights |
| Added | Jan 1, 2024 | Apr 15, 2025 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 256KBest | 128K |
| Max output | 32.77K | 98.3KBest |
| Average output | — | 59 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.15 | $0.13Best |
| Output | $0.65Best | $0.85 |
| Cache read | — | $0.025 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | — | 90.9 tok/s |
| Time to first token | — | 1.5 s |
| Request success (24h) | — | 100.0% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 11.2Best | 11.1 |
| Coding Index | 17.4 | — |
| Math Index | 84.3Best | 80.7 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Tools | No | Yes |
| Structured output | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking)
- GLM 4.5 Air
Intelligence Index
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking)11.2
- GLM 4.5 Air11.1
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
- GLM 4.5 Air: —
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking): 84.3Top
- GLM 4.5 Air: 80.7
Agentic work
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking): 128 Elo
- GLM 4.5 Air: —
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking): 63.7%Top
- GLM 4.5 Air: 46.7%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking): 12.6%Top
- GLM 4.5 Air: 7.0%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking): 75.9%Top
- GLM 4.5 Air: 73.3%
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking): 82.4%Top
- GLM 4.5 Air: 81.5%
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking): 60.7%Top
- GLM 4.5 Air: 37.6%
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking): 78.4%Top
- GLM 4.5 Air: 68.4%
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking): 84.3%Top
- GLM 4.5 Air: 80.7%
AIME
Competition mathematics
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking): —
- GLM 4.5 Air: 67.3%
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking): —
- GLM 4.5 Air: 96.5%
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking): 9.8%
- GLM 4.5 Air: 20.5%Top
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking): 41.5%
- GLM 4.5 Air: 46.5%Top
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking): 63.7%Top
- GLM 4.5 Air: 46.7%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
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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