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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.
$ how it compares
The LLMs ranked either side of Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Thinking, out of 828 with a score, then more from Alibaba.
| # | model | score | where | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 186 | 64±1 | local | |||
| 187 | 63±1 | comparison only | |||
| 188 | 63±1 | api $0.41/M +local | |||
| 189 | 63±1 | api $4.00/M +local | |||
| 190 | 63±1 | comparison only | |||
| more from Alibaba | |||||
| 18 | 78±1 | api $3.00/M +local | |||
| 34 | 76±1 | api $3.00/M | |||
| 37 | 75±1 | local | |||
$ 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.
| test | result | vs the others in its run | counts |
|---|---|---|---|
| τ²-bench Telecom lab | 43.9% ✎ | ▁·▅█▆▅▂▃▃▂▃▁ beats 37/89 | 5.3% |
| τ-bench Retail lab | 69.6% ✎ | ▁····▃·▂▇█▂▆ beats 20/28 | 2.5% |
| τ²-bench Retail lab | 67.8% ✎ | ▁····▂▁▃▆█▃▁ beats 23/44 | 2.1% |
| τ-bench Airline lab | 49.0% ✎ | ▁▁▁·▅▄▁█▇▁▁▇ beats 20/28 | 1.7% |
| τ²-bench Airline lab | 60.5% ✎ | ▁▁·▂▁▃▂▁█▅▂▃ beats 33/42 | 1.6% |
| τ²-bench aggregate lab | 57.4% ✎ | ▁▁▁·▂▂▄▃▃▅█▂ beats 8/37 | 0.9% |
| BFCL V4 (December 2025 archive) lab | 49.7% ✎ | ▁▁▁▂▇▆▆▆█▂▄▂ beats 71/111 | 0.9% |
| BFCL v3 lab | 72.0% ✎ | ▁▁▁▁▁▃▅█▆▅▄▁ beats 159/170 | 0.6% |
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.
| test | result | vs the others in its run | counts |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveCodeBench v6 (Feb–May 2025) lab +1 | 68.7% ✎ | ▁▁▃▁█▅▄▇▅▅▃█ beats 19/38 | 3.2% |
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.
| test | result | vs the others in its run | counts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arena-Hard v2 aggregate lab | 62.3% ✎ | ▁▁··▄▃▁▃█▁▁▇ beats 11/22 | 4.0% |
| LMArena (text) | 1369.4 ✎ | ▁▁▁▂▃▃▃▆▆▇█▃ beats 212/379 | 3.8% |
| IFEval (aggregation unspecified) lab | 88.9% ✎ | ▁▁▃▁▂▄▄▆█▃▂▁ beats 103/141 | 1.0% |
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.
| test | result | vs the others in its run | counts |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMMT 2025 (edition unspecified) lab | 73.9% ✎ | ▃█▇▅▇▅▁·▁··▁ beats 20/32 | 4.3% |
| PolyMATH lab +1 | 56.3% ✎ | ▁···▃▁·▇█▄▄▄ beats 18/23 | 3.0% |
| AIME 2025 lab | 87.8% ✎ | ▁·▁▁▁▂▅▆█▇▅▁ beats 106/133 | 2.4% |
| HMMT February 2025 lab | 73.7% ✎ | ▁▁▁▃▁▅▅▃██▁▄ beats 11/31 | 2.0% |
| HMMT November 2025 lab | 81.2% ✎ | ▁▁····▁▅▃█▇▁ beats 6/23 | 1.7% |
other tests30 not in a task · 59% of its score
| test | result | vs the others in its run | counts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medmarks-V mean win rate (19 verifiable medical benchmarks, 71 configurations) | 0.5888 ✎ | ▁▄▃▃▇▄█▃▅▃▁▁ beats 28/30 | 5.9% |
| GPQA Diamond lab | 77.2% ✎ | ▁▁▁▁▂▄▅▅███▄ beats 185/310 | 4.9% |
| GPQA (subset unspecified) lab | 77.2% ✎ | ▂▁▂▂▄▃▆▃▅█▄▃ beats 90/104 | 4.2% |
| INCLUDE lab +1 | 78.9% ✎ | ▂····▂▂▄▄▄█▄ beats 24/36 | 4.1% |
| MMLU-Pro lab +1 | 82.7% ✎ | ▁▁·▁▁▁▃▂▄▅█▁ beats 152/188 | 3.8% |
| Medmarks-V weighted mean win rate (61 models, 71 configurations) | 58.9% ✎ | ▂▃▅▂▆▃█▅█▅▃▆ beats 29/34 | 2.9% |
| MMLU-ProX lab +1 | 78.7% ✎ | ▁·▁▁▁▂▁▃▂█▅▄ beats 19/35 | 2.8% |
| LongBench v2 lab | 48.0% ✎ | ▂·▁·▂▂▁▃▄▁█▄ beats 14/28 | 2.5% |
22 more tests
| test | result | vs the others in its run | counts |
|---|---|---|---|
| C-Eval lab | 89.7% ✎ | ▁···▁▁▂▁▂▂▃█ beats 21/33 | 2.4% |
| KINA (Knowledge Index of Noah's Ark) accuracy, 899 ten-option items | 28.3% ✎ | ▁▁▂▁▃▄█▆▄▅▂▃ beats 15/39 | 2.4% |
| BRIDGE clinical text, zero-shot average (87 tasks) | 43.9% ✎ | ▁▁▁▁▁▂▂▃▄▆█▃ beats 90/97 | 2.2% |
| MMMLU lab | 81.3% ✎ | ▂▁▁▂▃▂▄▄▅██▃ beats 32/46 | 2.0% |
| OJBench lab | 29.7% ✎ | ▁···▁▃·▅▄▅██ beats 16/26 | 2.0% |
| MMLU-Redux lab | 92.5% ✎ | ▁▁▃▁▂▃▄▅▇▅█▄ beats 47/63 | 2.0% |
| Global PIQA lab | 83.5% ✎ | ▃▃··▃··▃▃▅█▅ beats 6/11 | 1.7% |
| VitaBench lab | 29.5% ✎ | ▄··▂▄▆▆█▄▄▄▂ beats 13/21 | 1.7% |
| MultiChallenge lab | 51.3% ✎ | ▁·▁·▁▃▆▅▃▁█▅ beats 15/29 | 1.5% |
| MAXIFE lab | 79.9% ✎ | ▂·▂·▂···▆·▄█ beats 5/11 | 1.5% |
| SuperGPQA lab | 60.8% ✎ | ▂▁▂▂▅▆▃▇▇▇█▃ beats 36/46 | 1.5% |
| IFBench (aggregation unspecified) lab | 61.5% ✎ | ▃▇▂▄▅▅▂▄▄▆█▇ beats 45/80 | 1.5% |
| WritingBench lab | 84.6% ✎ | ▁·▁▂▁··▅█▂▂▁ beats 9/20 | 1.3% |
| LiveBench 2024-11-25 lab | 76.6% ✎ | ▄··▂·▂·▂█▆▂▂ beats 9/13 | 1.1% |
| Multi-IF (aggregation unspecified) lab | 77.8% ✎ | ▁▁▁▁▁▁▃▄█▄▁▂ beats 27/41 | 1.1% |
| NOVA-63 lab | 53.3% ✎ | ▃▃·▃···▃█▃▃█ beats 4/11 | 1.0% |
| DeepPlanning lab | 0.4% ✎ | ▃·····▂··▄█▄ beats 0/9 | 0.4% |
| EuroEval HellaSwag (English), test split, 5-shot generative MC, accuracy | 88.1% ✎ | ▃·▁▁▂▁▂▅█▇▄▁ beats 87/100 | 0.4% |
| EuroEval Life in the UK (English knowledge MC), test split, 5-shot, accuracy | 95.9% ✎ | ▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▄█▄▃ beats 145/146 | 0.2% |
| Vectara hallucination leaderboard, 2025 dataset (HHEM-2.3, factual consistency rate) | 96.3% ✎ | ▁▁▂▃▄▄█▆▃▂▂▁ beats 94/140 | 0.1% |
| WMT24++ lab | 57.4% ✎ | ▁·▁▁·▃·▁▂▆█▃ beats 3/27 | 0.1% |
| Vectara hallucination leaderboard (HHEM-2.3, factual consistency rate) | 90.7% ✎ | ▁▂▁▂▅█▂▃▄▃▁▁ beats 52/98 | 0.0% |
$ 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
- 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 | shWindowsirm https://llama.app/install.ps1 | iex - Run Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Thinking · needs ~24.5 GB · from huggingface.co/unslothchat in the terminal
llama cli -hf unsloth/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-GGUF:UD-Q2_K_XL - 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
- Install LM Studio · Open the app once before using the lms command.
- Run Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Thinking · needs ~44.8 GB, Mac only · from huggingface.co/lmstudio-community
- Or download it in the terminal
lms get https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-MLX-4bit -y - Then run lms ls to see its name, and lms chat followed by that name
Ollama
- Install Ollama
download it (macOS / Windows) ↗
Linuxcurl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh - Run Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Thinking · needs ~48.5 GB · from ollama.comchat in the terminal
ollama run qwen3-next:80b-a3b-thinking-q4_K_M
MLX (Mac)
version
- Install MLX (Mac) · Apple silicon Macs only, text only.with uv
uv tool install mlx-lmorpip install mlx-lm - Run Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Thinking · needs ~44.8 GB, Mac only · from huggingface.co/lmstudio-communitychat in the terminal
mlx_lm.chat --model lmstudio-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-MLX-4bit - 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
| source | results | share of the score |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | 46% | |
| 18 | 26% | |
| 3 | 9% | |
| 2 | 9% | |
| 1 | 4% | |
| 1 | 2% | |
| 1 | 2% | |
| 2 | 1% | |
| 2 | 0% | |
| prior · pull toward the middle | 0% | |
| weighted average | = 63.2 |
$ 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.
| precision | test | full → quantized | kept | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 → 0.768 | 104.1% | 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 → 0.876 | 93.2% | 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 → 0.5 | 83.3% | 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 unquantized | GPQA Diamond (reasoning table; per sibling FP8-dynamic card: pass@1 over n=8, lighteval, vLLM) | 0.737 → 0.768 | 104.1% | 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 unquantized | MATH-500 (reasoning table; per sibling FP8-dynamic card: pass@1 over n=8, lighteval, vLLM) | 0.94 → 0.944 | 100.4% | 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 unquantized | AIME 2025 (reasoning table; per sibling FP8-dynamic card: pass@1 over n=8, lighteval, vLLM) | 0.6 → 0.5 | 83.3% | 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 unquantized | GPQA Diamond pass@1 (n=8; lighteval, vLLM) | 0.737 → 0.748 | 101.4% | 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 unquantized | GSM8K 5-shot strict-match (OpenLLM v1 configuration; lm-evaluation-harness, vLLM) | 0.846 → 0.848 | 100.2% | 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 unquantized | MMLU 5-shot acc (OpenLLM v1 configuration; lm-evaluation-harness, vLLM) | 0.85 → 0.851 | 100.1% | 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 unquantized | MMLU-Pro 5-shot acc (OpenLLM v2 leaderboard configuration; lm-evaluation-harness, vLLM) | 0.727 → 0.728 | 100.1% | 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 unquantized | OpenLLM 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 → 0.732 | 100.0% | 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 unquantized | OpenLLM 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 → 0.384 | 98.3% | 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 unquantized | IFEval inst-level strict acc 0-shot (OpenLLM v2 leaderboard configuration; lm-evaluation-harness, vLLM) | 0.448 → 0.424 | 94.7% | 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 unquantized | Reasoning average (3 tasks: AIME 2025, MATH-500, GPQA Diamond; pass@1 over n=8 samples; lighteval, vLLM) | 0.759 → 0.705 | 92.9% | 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 unquantized | MATH-500 pass@1 (n=8; lighteval, vLLM) | 0.94 → 0.868 | 92.3% | 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 unquantized | AIME 2025 pass@1 (n=8; lighteval, vLLM) | 0.6 → 0.5 | 83.3% | source ↗ |
| INT4 W4A16 (GPTQ, symmetric, group 128; llm-compressor, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantized | IFEval inst-level strict acc 0-shot (OpenLLM v2 leaderboard configuration; lm-evaluation-harness, vLLM) | 0.448 → 0.46 | 102.7% | source ↗ |
| INT4 W4A16 (GPTQ, symmetric, group 128; llm-compressor, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantized | GPQA Diamond pass@1 (n=8; lighteval, vLLM) | 0.737 → 0.737 | 100.0% | source ↗ |
| INT4 W4A16 (GPTQ, symmetric, group 128; llm-compressor, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantized | OpenLLM 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 → 0.729 | 99.6% | source ↗ |
| INT4 W4A16 (GPTQ, symmetric, group 128; llm-compressor, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantized | MMLU 5-shot acc (OpenLLM v1 configuration; lm-evaluation-harness, vLLM) | 0.85 → 0.846 | 99.5% | source ↗ |
| INT4 W4A16 (GPTQ, symmetric, group 128; llm-compressor, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantized | OpenLLM 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 → 0.389 | 99.5% | source ↗ |
| INT4 W4A16 (GPTQ, symmetric, group 128; llm-compressor, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantized | GSM8K 5-shot strict-match (OpenLLM v1 configuration; lm-evaluation-harness, vLLM) | 0.846 → 0.838 | 99.0% | source ↗ |
| INT4 W4A16 (GPTQ, symmetric, group 128; llm-compressor, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantized | MMLU-Pro 5-shot acc (OpenLLM v2 leaderboard configuration; lm-evaluation-harness, vLLM) | 0.727 → 0.714 | 98.3% | source ↗ |
| INT4 W4A16 (GPTQ, symmetric, group 128; llm-compressor, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantized | MATH-500 pass@1 (n=8; lighteval, vLLM) | 0.94 → 0.872 | 92.8% | source ↗ |
| INT4 W4A16 (GPTQ, symmetric, group 128; llm-compressor, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantized | Reasoning average (3 tasks: AIME 2025, MATH-500, GPQA Diamond; pass@1 over n=8 samples; lighteval, vLLM) | 0.759 → 0.703 | 92.6% | source ↗ |
| INT4 W4A16 (GPTQ, symmetric, group 128; llm-compressor, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates and linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) layers unquantized | AIME 2025 pass@1 (n=8; lighteval, vLLM) | 0.6 → 0.5 | 83.3% | source ↗ |
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