Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
Access Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking from Qwen using Puter.js AI API.
Get Started// npm install @heyputer/puter.js
import { puter } from '@heyputer/puter.js';
puter.ai.chat("Explain quantum computing in simple terms", {
model: "qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking"
}).then(response => {
document.body.innerHTML = response.message.content;
});
<html>
<body>
<script src="https://js.puter.com/v2/"></script>
<script>
puter.ai.chat("Explain quantum computing in simple terms", {
model: "qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking"
}).then(response => {
document.body.innerHTML = response.message.content;
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
# pip install openai
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.puter.com/puterai/openai/v1/",
api_key="YOUR_PUTER_AUTH_TOKEN",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking",
messages=[
{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in simple terms"}
],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)
curl https://api.puter.com/puterai/openai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_PUTER_AUTH_TOKEN" \
-d '{
"model": "qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking",
"messages": [
{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in simple terms"}
]
}'
Model Card
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking is the reasoning-enhanced variant outperforming Gemini-2.5-Flash-Thinking on complex reasoning tasks with hybrid attention and multi-token prediction.
Context Window 131K
tokens
Max Output 33K
tokens
Input Cost $0.5
per million tokens
Output Cost $6
per million tokens
Input text
modalities
Tool Use Yes
Knowledge Cutoff Apr 2025
Release Date Sep 2025
Output Speed 142
tokens / sec
Latency 1.08s
time to first token
Model Playground
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Benchmarks
How Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking performs on standard evaluations.
| Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond Graduate-level science Q&A | 75.9% |
| Humanity's Last Exam Cross-domain reasoning | 11.7% |
| LiveCodeBench Recent coding problems | 78.4% |
| SciCode Scientific programming | 38.8% |
| AIME 2025 Advanced math exam | 84.3% |
| IFBench Instruction following | 60.7% |
| LCR Long-context reasoning | 60.3% |
| Terminal-Bench Hard Agentic terminal tasks | 9.8% |
| τ²-Bench Tool use / agents | 41.5% |
Scores sourced from Artificial Analysis.
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Frequently Asked Questions
You can access Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking by Qwen through Puter.js AI API. Include the library in your web app or Node.js project and start making calls with just a few lines of JavaScript — no backend and no configuration required. You can also use it with Python or cURL via Puter's OpenAI-compatible API.
Yes, it is free if you're using it through Puter.js. With the User-Pays Model, you can add Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking to your app at no cost — your users pay for their own AI usage directly, making it completely free for you as a developer.
| Price per 1M tokens | |
|---|---|
| Input | $0.5 |
| Output | $6 |
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking was created by Qwen and released on Sep 2025.
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking supports a context window of 131K tokens. For reference, that is roughly equivalent to 262 pages of text.
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking can generate up to 33K tokens in a single response.
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking has a knowledge cutoff date of Apr 2025. This means the model was trained on data available up to that date.
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking accepts the following input types: text. It produces: text.
Yes, Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking supports tool use (function calling), allowing it to interact with external tools, APIs, and data sources as part of its response flow.
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking scores 26.7 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, outperforming 63% of tracked models. On coding, it scores 19.5 (outperforms 50% of models). On math, it scores 84.3 (outperforms 81% of models).
Yes — the Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking API works with any JavaScript framework, Node.js, or plain HTML through Puter.js. Just include the library and start building. See the documentation for more details.
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