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Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

AI model

Context window
262,144 tokens
Maximum output
32,768 tokens
Open weights
Yes

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

Overall text preferences from head-to-head votes. Not factual accuracy or a task-success rate.

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking) 1368.1 Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking · 95% interval 1362.2–1373.9 · 13,476 votes · 2026-10-28

Recorded results

Only the same benchmark, version, workload, scenario and unit share a row. Missing results are not zero. System results include the full submitted hardware and software configuration.

Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,406.34 rating

Confidence interval: 1,388.48 – 1,424.20

1059 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,391.28 rating

Confidence interval: 1,379.84 – 1,402.73

2666 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,313.98 rating

Confidence interval: 1,299.87 – 1,328.09

1776 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,392.19 rating

Confidence interval: 1,384.26 – 1,400.12

5903 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,333.86 rating

Confidence interval: 1,325.92 – 1,341.81

9586 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,375.05 rating

Confidence interval: 1,352.25 – 1,397.85

662 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,351.49 rating

Confidence interval: 1,312.06 – 1,390.91

218 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,355.96 rating

Confidence interval: 1,322.79 – 1,389.12

296 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,371.15 rating

Confidence interval: 1,363.63 – 1,378.67

6664 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,383.98 rating

Confidence interval: 1,373.27 – 1,394.68

3016 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,359.87 rating

Confidence interval: 1,348.08 – 1,371.65

2490 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,312.25 rating

Confidence interval: 1,300.41 – 1,324.08

2445 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,364.33 rating

Confidence interval: 1,344.13 – 1,384.52

841 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,384.20 rating

Confidence interval: 1,371.43 – 1,396.97

2104 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,389.54 rating

Confidence interval: 1,367.34 – 1,411.74

686 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,391.94 rating

Confidence interval: 1,369.69 – 1,414.20

708 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,393.21 rating

Confidence interval: 1,384.49 – 1,401.92

4734 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,330.11 rating

Confidence interval: 1,319.45 – 1,340.76

3065 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,343.14 rating

Confidence interval: 1,333.28 – 1,353.00

3533 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,280.35 rating

Confidence interval: 1,239.16 – 1,321.55

206 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,309.15 rating

Confidence interval: 1,276.84 – 1,341.45

357 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,352.66 rating

Confidence interval: 1,341.74 – 1,363.59

2883 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,397.87 rating

Confidence interval: 1,378.14 – 1,417.59

822 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,345.98 rating

Confidence interval: 1,333.20 – 1,358.75

2218 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,342.31 rating

Confidence interval: 1,335.19 – 1,349.44

7573 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,368.06 rating

Confidence interval: 1,362.22 – 1,373.91

13476 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / polishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,344.94 rating

Confidence interval: 1,322.76 – 1,367.13

709 votes

Category
polish
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,337.22 rating

Confidence interval: 1,318.94 – 1,355.51

928 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,359.27 rating

Confidence interval: 1,331.26 – 1,387.28

458 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,406.82 rating

Confidence interval: 1,388.96 – 1,424.68

1060 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,391.52 rating

Confidence interval: 1,380.08 – 1,402.96

2667 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,314.53 rating

Confidence interval: 1,300.42 – 1,328.64

1775 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,392.24 rating

Confidence interval: 1,384.32 – 1,400.17

5903 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,333.96 rating

Confidence interval: 1,326.02 – 1,341.90

9582 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,375.97 rating

Confidence interval: 1,353.13 – 1,398.81

660 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,352.63 rating

Confidence interval: 1,313.17 – 1,392.09

217 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,357.17 rating

Confidence interval: 1,324.01 – 1,390.33

295 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,371.32 rating

Confidence interval: 1,363.80 – 1,378.84

6662 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,384.06 rating

Confidence interval: 1,373.36 – 1,394.77

3016 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,359.95 rating

Confidence interval: 1,348.16 – 1,371.74

2490 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,312.46 rating

Confidence interval: 1,300.63 – 1,324.29

2445 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,363.80 rating

Confidence interval: 1,343.58 – 1,384.01

840 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,384.29 rating

Confidence interval: 1,371.51 – 1,397.06

2102 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,389.65 rating

Confidence interval: 1,367.48 – 1,411.83

688 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,392.05 rating

Confidence interval: 1,369.79 – 1,414.30

708 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,393.42 rating

Confidence interval: 1,384.71 – 1,402.13

4736 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,330.37 rating

Confidence interval: 1,319.71 – 1,341.03

3064 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,343.34 rating

Confidence interval: 1,333.48 – 1,353.19

3533 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,280.20 rating

Confidence interval: 1,239.00 – 1,321.39

206 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,310.18 rating

Confidence interval: 1,277.83 – 1,342.52

356 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,352.84 rating

Confidence interval: 1,341.91 – 1,363.77

2881 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,398.35 rating

Confidence interval: 1,378.63 – 1,418.08

823 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,346.48 rating

Confidence interval: 1,333.69 – 1,359.26

2217 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,342.48 rating

Confidence interval: 1,335.35 – 1,349.60

7571 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,368.09 rating

Confidence interval: 1,362.25 – 1,373.93

13474 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / polishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,344.96 rating

Confidence interval: 1,322.78 – 1,367.15

709 votes

Category
polish
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,337.33 rating

Confidence interval: 1,319.07 – 1,355.59

929 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

1,357.59 rating

Confidence interval: 1,329.53 – 1,385.65

456 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference

Run it locally

Inference · memory estimate

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

Not enough verified architecture information for a reliable VRAM estimate.

API cost

USD / month

Standard text-token estimate. Excludes taxes, caching, batch discounts, reasoning and multimodal surcharges. Provider limits and regional availability may differ.

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

Capabilities

Context window
262,144 tokens
Maximum output
32,768 tokens
Reasoning
Yes
Tool calling
Yes
Open weights
Yes
Knowledge cutoff
2025-04
Model license
Apache 2.0

Input modalities

  • text

Output modalities

  • text