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Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking benchmarks, ranks and price

Where Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL place Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking, what it costs through OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway, and the models either side of it on the consensus.

Updated Oct 5, 2026Full leaderboardSources and method

Read Oct 5, 2026

#97of 126

on the LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 36 across 2 leaderboards.

Source: Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL, combined by Rank.ai.

By leaderboard

Where each leaderboard places Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking

Artificial Analysis

#84of 115

Score 11.2. Best run: qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking.

Intelligence Index: a composite of reasoning, knowledge, maths and coding evaluations.

LiveBench

Not measured by LiveBench.

Contamination-limited questions refreshed each release: reasoning, maths, coding, data analysis, language.

LMArena

#81of 115

Score 1370. Best run: qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking.

Blind head-to-head human votes, style controlled.

Berkeley BFCL

Not measured by Berkeley BFCL.

Function calling and tool use, single turn to multi turn and web search.

Price and context

$0.41

OpenRouter: $0.15 in, $1.20 out. Vercel AI Gateway: $0.15 in, $1.20 out Context window 262K tokens.

Nearby

The models either side of Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking

  1. #94Qwen3 32B36
  2. #95MiniMax M136
  3. #96o3 Mini High36
  4. #97Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking36
  5. #98Mistral Small 435
  6. #99GLM 4.5 Air35
  7. #100gpt-oss-120b34

Questions about Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking

How good is Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking?
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking ranks #97 of 126 models on the Rank.ai LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 36 out of 100 across 2 leaderboards.
Is Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking better than o3 Mini High?
Not on the consensus: o3 Mini High scores 36 to Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking's 36. Compare them source by source below, since the leaderboards test different things.
Is Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking better than Mistral Small 4?
On the consensus, yes: 36 to 35.
How much does Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking cost?
$0.15 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens on OpenRouter, the cheaper listing we read. Blended at three input tokens to one output, that is $0.41 per million.
Is Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking good for coding?
It scores 17.4 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Index, placing it #55 for coding among the models on this leaderboard.

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