Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct

API ID qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct

qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct was a Qwen model, released September 2025.

Status: Retired
Released: September 2025
Shutdown: Oct 10, 2026
Replacement: Qwen3.7 Plusqwen3.7-plus

qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct stopped serving on October 10, 2026. Recommended replacement: qwen3.7-plus.

How to migrate to Qwen3.7 Plus

Benchmarks

Scores as each source published them

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Arena

Arena	Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct	Rank	Date	Source
Text By category Math 1414 rank 137 Creative writing 1313 rank 217 Instruction following 1376 rank 180 Hard prompts 1419 rank 159 Long prompts 1390 rank 182 Multi-turn 1401 rank 163 Expert 1400 rank 179	1398 ±5	163 of 415 22,769 votes	Oct 13, 2026	source
Text: Coding	1444 ±9	163 of 410 4,815 votes	Oct 13, 2026	source

Rated as qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct. Ratings come from people voting between two anonymous answers; Text is style-controlled, as on arena.ai. Data: Arena (arena.ai), CC BY 4.0.

On cloud platforms

All platform dates

Platform	Platform ID	State	Shutdown	Time left	Replacement	Source
Amazon Bedrock	qwen.qwen3-next-80b-a3b	Active	not before Sep 11, 2026		—	source
Google Cloud Vertex AI	qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct-maas	Deprecated	Oct 21, 2026	6 days	Self-deploy Qwen3 Next on Model Garden	source

Google Cloud Vertex AI retires this model 11 days after Qwen's own API.

Read daily from each platform's own pages. The shutdown date and countdown on this page use Qwen's own date. Time left counts to 00:00 UTC on the shutdown date, which is the evening before in ET.

Price history

USD per 1M tokens, standard tier

We started recording this model's prices on Oct 5, 2026. The history grows with each daily check.

Show as a table

From	Type	Price
Oct 5, 2026	Input	$0.15
Oct 5, 2026	Output	$1.20

Prices

USD per 1M tokens, every type and band, by tier

Type	Price $/1M	In effect
Standard
input	$0.15
output	$1.20

Changelog

Changes we detected on Qwen's pages

Oct 12, 2026
Retired
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct has been retired
Info

Last checked Oct 15, 2026, 2:00 am ET · Sources: Qwen models, Qwen deprecations, Qwen free terms