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Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Thinking is an open-weights language model from Alibaba, released September 2025. Its published size is 80B parameters (3B active per token) and a 131k-token context window. Licence: apache-2.0.

63.2±0.7#163 of 719 LLMsfrom 52 benchmark results across 9 sources

$ how it compares

The LLMs ranked either side of Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Thinking, out of 828 with a score, then more from Alibaba.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
186MiniCPM5 2B OpenBMB64±1local~3GB2026-09
187Grok 3 Beta SpaceXAI (xAI)63±1comparison only2025-04
188Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Thinking Alibaba63±1api $0.41/M +local~27GB2025-09
189DeepSeek R1 (Jan '25) DeepSeek63±1api $4.00/M +local~110GB2025-01
190Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview (09-2025) Google63±1comparison only2025-09
more from Alibaba
18Qwen3.8 Max (2.4T-A95B) Alibaba78±1api $3.00/M +local~380GB2026-08
34Qwen3.8 Max (0902) Alibaba76±1api $3.00/M2026-09
37Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Alibaba75±1local~59GB2026-08

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$ what it's good at

agent tasks▁▁▃▆█▆▅▅▅▄▃▁ #147 of 300 · 16% of its score · 8 tests

Beats o4-mini, o1 (2024-12-17), o3-mini here, though they rank higher overall. Trails SmolLM3 3B, Jamba 1.5 Mini, Jamba 1.5 Large here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
τ²-bench Telecom lab43.9% ✎▁·▅█▆▅▂▃▃▂▃▁ beats 37/89very hard · avg 9.5%▇▇ 5.3%sharp · at its level
τ-bench Retail lab69.6% ✎▁····▃·▂▇█▂▆ beats 20/28medium · avg 36%▇ 2.5%at its level
τ²-bench Retail lab67.8% ✎▁····▂▁▃▆█▃▁ beats 23/44medium · avg 37%▇ 2.1%at its level
τ-bench Airline lab49.0% ✎▁▁▁·▅▄▁█▇▁▁▇ beats 20/28hard · avg 23%▇ 1.7%at its level
τ²-bench Airline lab60.5% ✎▁▁·▂▁▃▂▁█▅▂▃ beats 33/42hard · avg 32%▇ 1.6%at its level
τ²-bench aggregate lab57.4% ✎▁▁▁·▂▂▄▃▃▅█▂ beats 8/37medium · avg 37%▇ 0.9%at its level · noisy
BFCL V4 (December 2025 archive) lab49.7% ✎▁▁▁▂▇▆▆▆█▂▄▂ beats 71/111medium · avg 36%▇ 0.9%at its level
BFCL v3 lab72.0% ✎▁▁▁▁▁▃▅█▆▅▄▁ beats 159/170medium · avg 59%▇ 0.6%blunt · at its level
coding▁▁▁▃▆██▇▆▄▃▁ #139 of 458 * · 3.2% of its score · 1 test

Beats Gemini 2.5 Pro, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, Qwen3-Coder-Next (80B-A3B) here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Devstral Small 2 24B, Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
LiveCodeBench v6 (Feb–May 2025) lab +168.7% ✎▁▁▃▁█▅▄▇▅▅▃█ beats 19/38medium · avg 40%▇ 3.2%at its level · several runs
chat & writing▁▁▁▃▅▄▅█▆▆▇▃ #137 of 393 · 8.8% of its score · 3 tests

Beats o3-mini, EXAONE 4.5 33B, INTELLECT-3 here, though they rank higher overall. Trails LFM2.5 8B-A1B, LFM2.5 2.6B, Spark-X2.5 1.7B here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Arena-Hard v2 aggregate lab62.3% ✎▁▁··▄▃▁▃█▁▁▇ beats 11/22hard · avg 28%▇▇ 4.0%sharp · at its level
LMArena (text)1369.4 ✎▁▁▁▂▃▃▃▆▆▇█▃ beats 212/379avg 1268▇▇ 3.8%blunt
IFEval (aggregation unspecified) lab88.9% ✎▁▁▃▁▂▄▄▆█▃▂▁ beats 103/141easy · avg 78%▇ 1.0%typical
math▁▂▃▅▆▅▄█▄▁▁▁ #125 of 398 · 13% of its score · 5 tests

Beats Claude Sonnet 4.6, MiniMax-M3, MiMo-V2.5 (310B-A15B) here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Olmo 3.1 32B Think, Granite 4.2 8B, Falcon-H1R 7B here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
HMMT 2025 (edition unspecified) lab73.9% ✎▃█▇▅▇▅▁·▁··▁ beats 20/32hard · avg 33%▇▇ 4.3%sharp · at its level
PolyMATH lab +156.3% ✎▁···▃▁·▇█▄▄▄ beats 18/23hard · avg 32%▇ 3.0%at its level · several runs
AIME 2025 lab87.8% ✎▁·▁▁▁▂▅▆█▇▅▁ beats 106/133medium · avg 51%▇ 2.4%sharp · small run
HMMT February 2025 lab73.7% ✎▁▁▁▃▁▅▅▃██▁▄ beats 11/31medium · avg 48%▇ 2.0%typical
HMMT November 2025 lab81.2% ✎▁▁····▁▅▃█▇▁ beats 6/23medium · avg 61%▇ 1.7%typical
other tests30 not in a task · 59% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Medmarks-V mean win rate (19 verifiable medical benchmarks, 71 configurations)0.5888 ✎▁▄▃▃▇▄█▃▅▃▁▁ beats 28/30avg 0.423▇▇ 5.9%sharp
GPQA Diamond lab77.2% ✎▁▁▁▁▂▄▅▅███▄ beats 185/310hard · avg 48%▇▇ 4.9%sharp · at its level
GPQA (subset unspecified) lab77.2% ✎▂▁▂▂▄▃▆▃▅█▄▃ beats 90/104hard · avg 49%▇▇ 4.2%sharp · at its level
INCLUDE lab +178.9% ✎▂····▂▂▄▄▄█▄ beats 24/36medium · avg 58%▇▇ 4.1%at its level · several runs
MMLU-Pro lab +182.7% ✎▁▁·▁▁▁▃▂▄▅█▁ beats 152/188medium · avg 61%▇▇ 3.8%several runs
Medmarks-V weighted mean win rate (61 models, 71 configurations)58.9% ✎▂▃▅▂▆▃█▅█▅▃▆ beats 29/34medium · avg 42%▇ 2.9%blunt · at its level
MMLU-ProX lab +178.7% ✎▁·▁▁▁▂▁▃▂█▅▄ beats 19/35medium · avg 60%▇ 2.8%several runs
LongBench v2 lab48.0% ✎▂·▁·▂▂▁▃▄▁█▄ beats 14/28very hard · avg 35%▇ 2.5%at its level
22 more tests
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
C-Eval lab89.7% ✎▁···▁▁▂▁▂▂▃█ beats 21/33medium · avg 73%▇ 2.4%typical
KINA (Knowledge Index of Noah's Ark) accuracy, 899 ten-option items28.3% ✎▁▁▂▁▃▄█▆▄▅▂▃ beats 15/39very hard · avg 22%▇ 2.4%blunt
BRIDGE clinical text, zero-shot average (87 tasks)43.9% ✎▁▁▁▁▁▂▂▃▄▆█▃ beats 90/97hard · avg 32%▇ 2.2%blunt · at its level
MMMLU lab81.3% ✎▂▁▁▂▃▂▄▄▅██▃ beats 32/46medium · avg 63%▇ 2.0%at its level
OJBench lab29.7% ✎▁···▁▃·▅▄▅██ beats 16/26very hard · avg 13%▇ 2.0%at its level
MMLU-Redux lab92.5% ✎▁▁▃▁▂▃▄▅▇▅█▄ beats 47/63easy · avg 82%▇ 2.0%typical
Global PIQA lab83.5% ✎▃▃··▃··▃▃▅█▅ beats 6/11medium · avg 71%▇ 1.7%at its level
VitaBench lab29.5% ✎▄··▂▄▆▆█▄▄▄▂ beats 13/21very hard · avg 10%▇ 1.7%at its level
MultiChallenge lab51.3% ✎▁·▁·▁▃▆▅▃▁█▅ beats 15/29hard · avg 30%▇ 1.5%at its level
MAXIFE lab79.9% ✎▂·▂·▂···▆·▄█ beats 5/11medium · avg 63%▇ 1.5%typical
SuperGPQA lab60.8% ✎▂▁▂▂▅▆▃▇▇▇█▃ beats 36/46medium · avg 39%▇ 1.5%at its level
IFBench (aggregation unspecified) lab61.5% ✎▃▇▂▄▅▅▂▄▄▆█▇ beats 45/80medium · avg 39%▇ 1.5%at its level
WritingBench lab84.6% ✎▁·▁▂▁··▅█▂▂▁ beats 9/20easy · avg 70%▇ 1.3%typical
LiveBench 2024-11-25 lab76.6% ✎▄··▂·▂·▂█▆▂▂ beats 9/13medium · avg 60%▇ 1.1%typical
Multi-IF (aggregation unspecified) lab77.8% ✎▁▁▁▁▁▁▃▄█▄▁▂ beats 27/41medium · avg 63%▇ 1.1%blunt
NOVA-63 lab53.3% ✎▃▃·▃···▃█▃▃█ beats 4/11medium · avg 38%▇ 1.0%blunt · at its level
DeepPlanning lab0.4% ✎▃·····▂··▄█▄ beats 0/9very hard · avg 7.1%▇ 0.4%noisy
EuroEval HellaSwag (English), test split, 5-shot generative MC, accuracy88.1% ✎▃·▁▁▂▁▂▅█▇▄▁ beats 87/100medium · avg 68%▇ 0.4%noisy
EuroEval Life in the UK (English knowledge MC), test split, 5-shot, accuracy95.9% ✎▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▄█▄▃ beats 145/146easy · avg 83%▇ 0.2%noisy
Vectara hallucination leaderboard, 2025 dataset (HHEM-2.3, factual consistency rate)96.3% ✎▁▁▂▃▄▄█▆▃▂▂▁ beats 94/140very easy · avg 94%▇ 0.1%blunt · maxed out · noisy
WMT24++ lab57.4% ✎▁·▁▁·▃·▁▂▆█▃ beats 3/27easy · avg 68%▇ 0.1%blunt · at its level
Vectara hallucination leaderboard (HHEM-2.3, factual consistency rate)90.7% ✎▁▂▁▂▅█▂▃▄▃▁▁ beats 52/98very easy · avg 90%▇ 0.0%blunt

$ where to run it

Through an API

api · Alibaba Cloud Model Studio · $0.41/M · $0.15 in / $1.2 out per 1M tokens · 131k context · www.alibabacloud.com ↗ · price sourceUSD per 1M tokens, Singapore (International), qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking, thinking mode only. Observed 2026-09-25.

llama.cpp · recommended

  1. Install llama.cpp · Homebrew and winget installs name the commands llama-cli and llama-server instead.
    macOS / Linux
    curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | sh
    Windows
    irm https://llama.app/install.ps1 | iex

    other ways to install ↗

  2. Run Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Thinking · needs ~24.5 GB · from huggingface.co/unsloth
    chat in the terminal
    llama cli -hf unsloth/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-GGUF:UD-Q2_K_XL
  3. Or start a local server and open the address it prints (http://localhost:9931)
    llama serve -hf unsloth/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-GGUF:UD-Q2_K_XL

LM Studio

version

  1. Install LM Studio · Open the app once before using the lms command.

    download it (macOS / Windows / Linux) ↗

  2. Run Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Thinking · needs ~44.8 GB, Mac only · from huggingface.co/lmstudio-community

    open in LM Studio ↗

  3. Or download it in the terminal
    lms get https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-MLX-4bit -y
  4. Then run lms ls to see its name, and lms chat followed by that name

Ollama

  1. Install Ollama

    download it (macOS / Windows) ↗

    Linux
    curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
  2. Run Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Thinking · needs ~48.5 GB · from ollama.com
    chat in the terminal
    ollama run qwen3-next:80b-a3b-thinking-q4_K_M

MLX (Mac)

version

  1. Install MLX (Mac) · Apple silicon Macs only, text only.
    with uv
    uv tool install mlx-lm
    or
    pip install mlx-lm
  2. Run Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Thinking · needs ~44.8 GB, Mac only · from huggingface.co/lmstudio-community
    chat in the terminal
    mlx_lm.chat --model lmstudio-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-MLX-4bit
  3. Or start an OpenAI-compatible server at http://localhost:8080/v1
    mlx_lm.server --model lmstudio-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-MLX-4bit

Official weights and documentation: huggingface.co/Qwen ↗

$ how the score was worked out · Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Think… 46%, Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B model card 26%, Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B model card 9% and 6 more

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

$ quantization evidence · 26 measurements

How much of the full-precision result a quantized version kept, measured within one study. Rows from the same study share a table and aren't independent.

precisiontestfull → quantizedkept
FP8 (Qwen official checkpoint Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-FP8; recipe not described in this card)GPQA Diamond (reasoning table; per sibling FP8-dynamic card: pass@1 over n=8, lighteval, vLLM)0.737 → 0.768104.1%source ↗
FP8 (Qwen official checkpoint Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-FP8; recipe not described in this card)MATH-500 (reasoning table; per sibling FP8-dynamic card: pass@1 over n=8, lighteval, vLLM)0.94 → 0.87693.2%source ↗
FP8 (Qwen official checkpoint Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-FP8; recipe not described in this card)AIME 2025 (reasoning table; per sibling FP8-dynamic card: pass@1 over n=8, lighteval, vLLM)0.6 → 0.583.3%source ↗
FP8 block (E4M3; weights static 128x128 blocks, activations dynamic per-group 128; llm-compressor FP8_BLOCK, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantizedGPQA Diamond (reasoning table; per sibling FP8-dynamic card: pass@1 over n=8, lighteval, vLLM)0.737 → 0.768104.1%source ↗
FP8 block (E4M3; weights static 128x128 blocks, activations dynamic per-group 128; llm-compressor FP8_BLOCK, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantizedMATH-500 (reasoning table; per sibling FP8-dynamic card: pass@1 over n=8, lighteval, vLLM)0.94 → 0.944100.4%source ↗
FP8 block (E4M3; weights static 128x128 blocks, activations dynamic per-group 128; llm-compressor FP8_BLOCK, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantizedAIME 2025 (reasoning table; per sibling FP8-dynamic card: pass@1 over n=8, lighteval, vLLM)0.6 → 0.583.3%source ↗
FP8 W8A8 dynamic (E4M3; weights static per-channel, activations dynamic per-token; llm-compressor FP8_DYNAMIC, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantizedGPQA Diamond pass@1 (n=8; lighteval, vLLM)0.737 → 0.748101.4%source ↗
FP8 W8A8 dynamic (E4M3; weights static per-channel, activations dynamic per-token; llm-compressor FP8_DYNAMIC, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantizedGSM8K 5-shot strict-match (OpenLLM v1 configuration; lm-evaluation-harness, vLLM)0.846 → 0.848100.2%source ↗
FP8 W8A8 dynamic (E4M3; weights static per-channel, activations dynamic per-token; llm-compressor FP8_DYNAMIC, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantizedMMLU 5-shot acc (OpenLLM v1 configuration; lm-evaluation-harness, vLLM)0.85 → 0.851100.1%source ↗
FP8 W8A8 dynamic (E4M3; weights static per-channel, activations dynamic per-token; llm-compressor FP8_DYNAMIC, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantizedMMLU-Pro 5-shot acc (OpenLLM v2 leaderboard configuration; lm-evaluation-harness, vLLM)0.727 → 0.728100.1%source ↗
FP8 W8A8 dynamic (E4M3; weights static per-channel, activations dynamic per-token; llm-compressor FP8_DYNAMIC, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantizedOpenLLM v1 average (6 tasks: ARC-Challenge 25-shot acc_norm, GSM8K 5-shot strict-match, HellaSwag 10-shot acc_norm, MMLU 5-shot, TruthfulQA mc2 0-shot, Winogrande 5-shot; lm-evaluation-harness, vLLM)0.732 → 0.732100.0%source ↗
FP8 W8A8 dynamic (E4M3; weights static per-channel, activations dynamic per-token; llm-compressor FP8_DYNAMIC, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantizedOpenLLM v2 average (6 tasks: IFEval inst-level strict, BBH 3-shot, Math-Hard 4-shot, GPQA 0-shot, MuSR 0-shot, MMLU-Pro 5-shot; lm-evaluation-harness leaderboard, vLLM)0.391 → 0.38498.3%source ↗
FP8 W8A8 dynamic (E4M3; weights static per-channel, activations dynamic per-token; llm-compressor FP8_DYNAMIC, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantizedIFEval inst-level strict acc 0-shot (OpenLLM v2 leaderboard configuration; lm-evaluation-harness, vLLM)0.448 → 0.42494.7%source ↗
FP8 W8A8 dynamic (E4M3; weights static per-channel, activations dynamic per-token; llm-compressor FP8_DYNAMIC, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantizedReasoning average (3 tasks: AIME 2025, MATH-500, GPQA Diamond; pass@1 over n=8 samples; lighteval, vLLM)0.759 → 0.70592.9%source ↗
FP8 W8A8 dynamic (E4M3; weights static per-channel, activations dynamic per-token; llm-compressor FP8_DYNAMIC, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantizedMATH-500 pass@1 (n=8; lighteval, vLLM)0.94 → 0.86892.3%source ↗
FP8 W8A8 dynamic (E4M3; weights static per-channel, activations dynamic per-token; llm-compressor FP8_DYNAMIC, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantizedAIME 2025 pass@1 (n=8; lighteval, vLLM)0.6 → 0.583.3%source ↗
INT4 W4A16 (GPTQ, symmetric, group 128; llm-compressor, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantizedIFEval inst-level strict acc 0-shot (OpenLLM v2 leaderboard configuration; lm-evaluation-harness, vLLM)0.448 → 0.46102.7%source ↗
INT4 W4A16 (GPTQ, symmetric, group 128; llm-compressor, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantizedGPQA Diamond pass@1 (n=8; lighteval, vLLM)0.737 → 0.737100.0%source ↗
INT4 W4A16 (GPTQ, symmetric, group 128; llm-compressor, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantizedOpenLLM v1 average (6 tasks: ARC-Challenge 25-shot acc_norm, GSM8K 5-shot strict-match, HellaSwag 10-shot acc_norm, MMLU 5-shot, TruthfulQA mc2 0-shot, Winogrande 5-shot; lm-evaluation-harness, vLLM)0.732 → 0.72999.6%source ↗
INT4 W4A16 (GPTQ, symmetric, group 128; llm-compressor, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantizedMMLU 5-shot acc (OpenLLM v1 configuration; lm-evaluation-harness, vLLM)0.85 → 0.84699.5%source ↗
INT4 W4A16 (GPTQ, symmetric, group 128; llm-compressor, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantizedOpenLLM v2 average (6 tasks: IFEval inst-level strict, BBH 3-shot, Math-Hard 4-shot, GPQA 0-shot, MuSR 0-shot, MMLU-Pro 5-shot; lm-evaluation-harness leaderboard, vLLM)0.391 → 0.38999.5%source ↗
INT4 W4A16 (GPTQ, symmetric, group 128; llm-compressor, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantizedGSM8K 5-shot strict-match (OpenLLM v1 configuration; lm-evaluation-harness, vLLM)0.846 → 0.83899.0%source ↗
INT4 W4A16 (GPTQ, symmetric, group 128; llm-compressor, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantizedMMLU-Pro 5-shot acc (OpenLLM v2 leaderboard configuration; lm-evaluation-harness, vLLM)0.727 → 0.71498.3%source ↗
INT4 W4A16 (GPTQ, symmetric, group 128; llm-compressor, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantizedMATH-500 pass@1 (n=8; lighteval, vLLM)0.94 → 0.87292.8%source ↗
INT4 W4A16 (GPTQ, symmetric, group 128; llm-compressor, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantizedReasoning average (3 tasks: AIME 2025, MATH-500, GPQA Diamond; pass@1 over n=8 samples; lighteval, vLLM)0.759 → 0.70392.6%source ↗
INT4 W4A16 (GPTQ, symmetric, group 128; llm-compressor, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantizedAIME 2025 pass@1 (n=8; lighteval, vLLM)0.6 → 0.583.3%source ↗

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