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Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking

Qwen Apache 2.0 out 14 months ago

81.3B parameters, 3B active (10 of 512 experts per token), text in, text out, 256K tokens of context. 1 provider serves it.

Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #265 in LLMs · score 85.2 method v1 Sources 4 Downloads 30d 39.6k · #399 of 619 tracked

Can I run it?49GB at INT4Estimatefits a 64 GB Mac (unified memory)method
Can I use it?Apache 2.0Permissive; patent grantlicence file2026-10-24
Do people use it?39.6kdownloads, 30 days#399 of 619 we track · below the median+2 likes, downloads −1% this week502 likesHugging Face2026-10-24

Worth reading

Picked by rule from 18 tracked pieces: the lab's own post, the most shared, a field report, the latest.

Most discussed · 490 HN pts

GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since GPT-2

OpenAI released gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, their first open-weight models since GPT-2 in 2019.

  • A 2025 research paper confirms Dropout results in worse downstream performance in single-epoch regimes.
magazine.sebastianraschka.com 2025-08-10 490 HN pts · 97 comments 5.2k words about the Qwen3 family family

18 best of 18 tracked

The 3 picks above, plus these 15. Top is the radar's score: discussion, source authority and the lab's own posts, fading with age.

  1. ArticleQwen3-Coder-Nextqwen.ai · 2026-02-03 · official
  2. ArticleQwen3-Max-Thinkingqwen.ai · 2026-01-26 · official
  3. ArticleQwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generationqwen.ai · 2026-01-22 · official
  4. ArticleQwen3: Think deeper, act fasterqwenlm.github.io · 2025-04-28 · 869 HN pts · official
  5. ArticleQwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the worldqwenlm.github.io · 2025-07-22 · official
  6. ArticleQwen3-Nextqwen.ai · 2025-09-12 · 569 HN pts · official
  7. ArticleQwen3-VLqwen.ai · 2025-09-23 · official
  8. CodeQwen3-Omni: Native Omni AI model for text, image and videogithub.com · 2025-09-22
  9. ArticleQwen3 Next 80B A3B: API Provider Performance Benchmarking & Price Analysis | Artificial Analysisartificialanalysis.ai · undated
  10. ArticleQwen3-Next: Towards Ultimate Training & Inference Efficiency - Alibaba Cloud Communityalibabacloud.com · 2025-10-14 · official
  11. Articleqwen / qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinkingdocs.api.nvidia.com · undated
  12. ArticleQwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking — Hardware Requirements & Compatibility | llmrunllmrun.dev · undated
  13. Articleqwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking — 262K context, $0.15/1M | haimaker.aihaimaker.ai · undated
  14. ArticleQwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking Review | Pricing, Benchmarks & Capabilities (2026) | Design for Onlinedesignforonline.com · 2026-02-25
  15. ArticleQwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking · Benchmarks, Pricing & Performance | BenchGeckobenchgecko.ai · 2025-09-11

Where it's used

Hugging Face does not say who downloads a model or with what. These are the proxies: API providers listing it, quantized builds, fine-tunes/adapters/merges, and Spaces that load it.

Served by 1 API provider; 48 quantized builds for local use.

  • As a service1Google
  • On own hardware48quantized builds
  • Built on3022 fine-tunes · 6 adapters · 2 merges
  • In apps100+Hugging Face Spaces

Top Spaces running it: hadadxyz/ai ♥ 819 · umint/ai ♥ 258 · jairwaal/image ♥ 16 · MCP-1st-Birthday/DETERMINATOR ♥ 16

Will it fit?

Weights only, an estimate: leave room for the KV cache. Method

Fits a 64 GB Mac (unified memory) at INT4

About 49 GB at INT4, 98 GB at FP8, 195 GB at BF16: weights only, so leave room for the KV cache. Every expert must be resident, so total parameters count.

16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 49 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT449 GBFP8: about 98 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP898 GBBF16: about 195 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF16195 GB
16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 49 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT449 GBFP8: about 98 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP898 GBBF16: about 195 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF16195 GB

Estimate params × bytes per param × 1.2 · how we estimate

The story so far

Weights, every dated article, and repo commits on one rail.

Most coverage came in the first two weeks

Teal is the weights (2025-09-09), amber triangles are 5 dated articles (each links to it), grey ticks are repo commits.

What people built on it

78 derivatives on the Hub. Which build to run, by runtime: the most downloaded in each class.

78 derivatives on the Hub, most of them quantized

From the Hugging Face model tree; quantized builds in teal, fine-tunes, merges and adapters in greys.

48 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)22 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)2 merges (Hugging Face model tree)6 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)48 quantized22 fine-tunes2 merges6 adapters
48 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)22 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)2 merges (Hugging Face model tree)6 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)48 quantized22 fine-tunes2 merges6 adapters

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Reference

Everything else, folded: the full tables, every source.

Benchmarks

16 rows

Benchmarks 16 rows

measured third-party leaderboard rowauthor-reported number from the model card or eval files (16)No confidence intervals unless the source gave them; settings differ between rows, so compare within a benchmark, not across. Date = the benchmark's own date when it gives one, else when we read it.
BenchmarkValueSetting / notesReported byDate
author-reported AIME 2025 · Reason through hard problems87.8 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported Arena-Hard · Chat and follow instructions62.3 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported BFCL · Call tools and APIs72 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported CFEval2071—model author2026-10-07
author-reported Creative Writing · Chat and follow instructions84.6 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported GPQA Diamond · Reason through hard problems77.2 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported HMMT · Reason through hard problems73.9 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported IFEval · Chat and follow instructions88.9 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported LiveBench · Reason through hard problems76.6 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported LiveCodeBench · Write code with agents68.7 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported MMLU · Reason through hard problems92.5 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported MMLU-Pro · Reason through hard problems82.7 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported OJBench29.7 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported SuperGPQA · Reason through hard problems60.8 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported TAU1-Airline49 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported TAU1-Retail69.6 percent—model author2026-10-07

What the card says

1 cited sentence

Summary generated, cited

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking is an 81.3B parameter mixture-of-experts causal language model designed for complex reasoning tasks.[1][2][3]

  1. parameters human
  2. is mixture of experts
  3. “We strongly recommend its use in highly complex reasoning…”

Generated 2026-10-07 15:07 UTC by parasail-gemma-4-26b-a4b-it; each numeral points at the fact it rests on. Not a verdict.

Use-case evidence

5 use cases

What it is good at 5 use cases

Labels are evidence, not verdicts: measured a third-party leaderboard row for this model; author-reported a number the model author published in the card or eval files; structural a deterministic signal from the name, config or chat template, or a decision-model estimate. Each chip links to its source. All use cases.

Facts

24 fields

Listed in LLMs · MoE

Facts

Pipeline tagtext-generation
Librarytransformers
ArchitecturesQwen3NextForCausalLM
Model typeqwen3_next
Dtypebfloat16
Params by dtypeBF16: 81,324,862,720
Size bandXL
MoEyes
Experts512
Experts per token10
Context length262,144 (config.json max_position_embeddings)
PapersarXiv:2309.00071, arXiv:2505.09388, arXiv:2501.15383
LicenseApache 2.0 (apache-2.0)
Hub snapshot2026-10-25

Servability

vLLM · SGLang

Servability

vLLM: supported · Qwen3NextForCausalLM · 7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6SGLang: supported · Qwen3NextForCausalLM · 773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed

vLLM registry (7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6) · SGLang registry (773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed) · Matched by architecture class name against each project's registry on main; 'supported' means the architecture is registered, not that this checkpoint was tested.

Hardware fit

3 estimates

Hardware fit ESTIMATE

Weights-only memory for Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking: params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead. KV cache and activations are extra. How this is computed.

BF16 (2 bytes/param)195 GB · Multi-GPU node (<640 GB)
FP8 (1 byte/param)98 GB · Multi-GPU node (<640 GB)
INT4 (0.5 bytes/param)49 GB · Single high-end GPU (<80 GB)

Weights only (params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead); KV cache and activations extra. MoE: all experts must be resident, so total parameters count.

All variants

40 variants

Lineage

Original model Family: Qwen/Qwen3 78 derivatives on the Hub

quantized: 48finetune: 22merge: 2adapter: 6

Top variants (40 shown, ranked by downloads)

Relation
Quant
Size
40 rows
Variant Relation Quant Params Band License Author Likes Downloads
cyankiwi/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-AWQ-4bit quantized AWQ 81.3B XL apache-2.0 cyankiwi 23 1.6M
Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-FP8 quantized -FP8 81.3B XL apache-2.0 Qwen 59 1.3M
bartowski/Qwen_Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 bartowski 16 527k
nvidia/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-NVFP4 quantized NVFP4 — — apache-2.0 nvidia 67 222.4k
unsloth/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 unsloth 85 218.7k
jart25/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-Int4-GPTQ quantized Int4 — — — jart25 1 116k
mlx-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-4bit quantized -4bit 79.7B XL apache-2.0 mlx-community 4 100.2k
mlx-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-8bit quantized -8bit 79.7B XL apache-2.0 mlx-community 3 97.4k
unsloth/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking finetune — 81.3B XL apache-2.0 unsloth 7 44.7k
DevQuasar/Qwen.Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-FP8-Dynamic quantized -FP8 79.8B XL — DevQuasar 0 14.6k
lefromage/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 lefromage 9 11.9k
INC4AI/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-int4-mixed-AutoRound quantized int4 11.5B L apache-2.0 INC4AI 33 9.2k
mradermacher/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-i1-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 mradermacher 0 10.4k
lmstudio-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-MLX-4bit quantized MLX 79.7B XL apache-2.0 lmstudio-community 5 9.1k
lmstudio-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 lmstudio-community 0 8.3k
lmstudio-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-MLX-8bit quantized MLX 79.7B XL apache-2.0 lmstudio-community 2 8.1k
RESMP-DEV/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-NVFP4 quantized NVFP4 — — apache-2.0 RESMP-DEV 10 6.4k
lovedheart/Qwen3-Next-REAP-25B-A3B-Thinking-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 lovedheart 4 6.1k
noctrex/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-MXFP4_MOE-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — noctrex 6 4.5k
jackcloudman/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 jackcloudman 2 3.7k
cyankiwi/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-AWQ-8bit quantized AWQ 81.3B XL apache-2.0 cyankiwi 5 3.4k
lovedheart/Qwen3-Next-REAP-20B-A3B-Thinking-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 lovedheart 4 3.2k
puwaer/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-GRPO-Uncensored finetune — 79.7B XL cc-by-nc-sa-4.0 puwaer 20 2.4k
lovedheart/Qwen3-Next-REAP-15B-A3B-Thinking-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 lovedheart 0 2.9k
INC4AI/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-int4-AutoRound quantized int4 11.2B L apache-2.0 INC4AI 6 2.5k
lmstudio-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-MLX-6bit quantized MLX 79.7B XL apache-2.0 lmstudio-community 0 2.5k
RedHatAI/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-NVFP4 quantized NVFP4 — — apache-2.0 RedHatAI 0 2.5k
lmstudio-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-MLX-5bit quantized MLX 79.7B XL apache-2.0 lmstudio-community 0 2.1k
MultiverseComputingCAI/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-Uncensored finetune — 79.7B XL apache-2.0 MultiverseComputingCAI 17 1.2k
abnormalmapstudio/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-mxfp4-mlx quantized mxfp4 79.7B XL apache-2.0 abnormalmapstudio 4 1.6k
nightmedia/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-1M-qx86n-hi-mlx quantized mlx 79.7B XL apache-2.0 nightmedia 3 1.4k
John1604/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-gguf quantized gguf — — apache-2.0 John1604 0 1.5k
lovedheart/Qwen3-Next-REAP-40B-A3B-Thinking-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 lovedheart 2 1.3k
RedHatAI/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-FP8-dynamic quantized -FP8 79.8B XL apache-2.0 RedHatAI 0 1.2k
kikekewl/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-mlx-bf16 finetune mlx 79.7B XL apache-2.0 kikekewl 1 1.1k
mlx-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-6bit quantized — 79.7B XL apache-2.0 mlx-community 1 1k
mlx-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-5bit quantized — 79.7B XL apache-2.0 mlx-community 1 992
mradermacher/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 mradermacher 0 1k
a4lg/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-MTP-ONLY-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 a4lg 0 896
nightmedia/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-qx64-hi-mlx quantized mlx 79.7B XL apache-2.0 nightmedia 1 816

Repository changelog

13 commits

Repository changelog 13 commits

DateCommitSHA
2025-09-15 Update README.md e502dd4
2025-09-12 Update README.md 61c2c4f
2025-09-12 Update README.md 9284628
2025-09-11 Upload tokenizer.json 3e64fd1
2025-09-11 Delete tokenizer.json 1ca4068
2025-09-11 Create LICENSE ed6743d
2025-09-11 Update generation_config.json a356163
2025-09-11 Update README.md e07e118
2025-09-11 Update config.json 658d849
2025-09-09 Add files using upload-large-folder tool 35695cd
2025-09-09 Add files using upload-large-folder tool f313b14
2025-09-09 Add files using upload-large-folder tool 57596c7
2025-09-09 initial commit b3e72bd

All providers

1 provider · 1 endpoint

Where to run 1 providers · 1 endpoints

Hosted endpoints observed for Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking, sorted by input price (USD per million tokens). Each row names its observer and date; prices change daily, so check the source before quoting. Cheapest observed input price: $0.15/M.

ProviderModel refContextQuant$/M in$/M outtok/sTTFTToolsStatusObserved
Google
openrouter
qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking 256K unknown $0.15 $1.20 — — yes status -5 2026-10-24

Articles and coverage

18 pieces

Ranked by source signals (HN, Lobsters, authority domains, official posts) and recency. Summaries are generated from a stored copy of the article text; every sentence cites a span of that text, and nothing is shown that failed the citation check.

Official3

qwenlm.github.io2025-04-28officialauthorityHN front pageabout the Qwen3 familyHN 869 pts · 388 comments2,139 words
Qwen3 introduces Hybrid Thinking Modes, allowing users to toggle between step-by-step reasoning and rapid responses via computational budget control. The open-weight MoE model Qwen3-235B-A22B achieves performance similar to dense models while using only 10% of the active parameters. Pre-training utilized approximately 36 trillion tokens across 119 languages, with deployment supported by SGLang and vLLM.written, reviewed, cited
  • Qwen3-8B and Qwen3-14B models do not use tied embeddings, unlike smaller variants.
  • The pre-training pipeline includes a final stage extending context length to 32K tokens.
qwen.ai2025-09-12officialauthorityHN front pageabout the Qwen3 familyHN 569 pts · 230 comments2,208 words
alibabacloud.com2025-10-14officialabout the Qwen3 family

Analysis7

venturebeat.com2026-02-28HN front pageabout the Qwen3 familyHN 461 pts · 272 comments
magazine.sebastianraschka.com2025-08-10authorityHN front pageabout the Qwen3 familyHN 490 pts · 97 comments5,195 words
OpenAI released gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, their first open-weight models since GPT-2 in 2019. The 20B model can run on a consumer GPU with up to 16 GB of RAM, and the 120B model can run on a single H100 with 80 GB of RAM or newer hardware. The models utilize MXFP4 optimization to fit onto single GPUs.written, reviewed, cited
  • A 2025 research paper confirms Dropout results in worse downstream performance in single-epoch regimes.
artificialanalysis.aiauthorityabout the Qwen3 family
docs.api.nvidia.com
llmrun.dev
haimaker.ai
allthemodels.ai
All coverage tracked for this model (18) — append-only, nothing is ever removed
TitleSourcePublishedFirst seenSignals
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B: API Provider Performance Benchmarking & Price Analysis | Artificial Analysisartificialanalysis.ai—2026-10-07exa
qwen / qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinkingdocs.api.nvidia.com—2026-10-07exa
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking — Hardware Requirements & Compatibility | llmrunllmrun.dev—2026-10-07exa
qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking — 262K context, $0.15/1M | haimaker.aihaimaker.ai—2026-10-07exa
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking Benchmarks · all the modelsallthemodels.ai—2026-10-07exa
Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computersventurebeat.com2026-02-282026-10-07hn
Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking Review | Pricing, Benchmarks & Capabilities (2026) | Design for Onlinedesignforonline.com2026-02-252026-10-07exa
Qwen3-Coder-Nextqwen.ai official2026-02-032026-10-07hn
Qwen3-Max-Thinkingqwen.ai official2026-01-262026-10-07hn
Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generationqwen.ai official2026-01-222026-10-07hn
Qwen3-Next: Towards Ultimate Training & Inference Efficiency - Alibaba Cloud Communityalibabacloud.com official2025-10-142026-10-07exa
Qwen3-VLqwen.ai official2025-09-232026-10-07hn
Qwen3-Omni: Native Omni AI model for text, image and videogithub.com2025-09-222026-10-07hn
Qwen3-Nextqwen.ai official2025-09-122026-10-07hn
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking · Benchmarks, Pricing & Performance | BenchGeckobenchgecko.ai2025-09-112026-10-07exa
GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since GPT-2magazine.sebastianraschka.com2025-08-102026-10-07hn
Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the worldqwenlm.github.io official2025-07-222026-10-07hn
Qwen3: Think deeper, act fasterqwenlm.github.io official2025-04-282026-10-07hn

Papers

3 papers

Papers 3

arXiv links found in the model card and its tags. "Peer-reviewed" is shown only with evidence: a published venue in OpenAlex (measured) or the authors' own journal reference on arXiv (reported).

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Sources

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Sources

Hub snapshot: 2026-10-25 · HF API: 2026-10-24 21:37 UTC · Providers: 2026-10-24 21:44 UTC · Articles: 2026-10-24 21:45 UTC · Summary: 2026-10-07 15:07 UTC · Last verified 2026-10-25

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