Qwen3 Next 80B pricing
Alibaba (Qwen) ·
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Estimate Qwen3 Next 80B for your workload Source and check date
Rates last checked against the vendor’s own published pricing on 2026-09-17.
What Qwen3 Next 80B costs
| Rate | Per 1M tokens | Per 1K tokens | What it covers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.15 | $0.00015 | Every token you send: prompt, history, documents. |
| Output | $1.2 | $0.0012 | Every token the model generates, including hidden reasoning tokens. |
What that means in practice
The same three workloads are costed on every model page, so these numbers are directly comparable across the catalog. No prompt caching and no batch discount is assumed — the figures are what you pay before you optimize anything.
Support chatbot
2,500 six-turn conversations a day
$786 / month
$0.010 per conversation · $9,437 a year
An 800-token system prompt, 400-token questions and 900-token answers, over six turns — each turn re-sending everything before it.
Document summarizer
1,000 single-shot summaries a day
$83.70 / month
$0.0028 per conversation · $1,004 a year
One 12,000-token document in, an 800-token summary out, no conversation history. The case where input dominates the bill.
Coding agent
200 twelve-turn sessions a day
$502 / month
$0.084 per conversation · $6,026 a year
A 3,000-token system prompt, 1,500-token instructions and 2,500-token responses over twelve turns. Long sessions are where the quadratic cost of re-sent history stops being theoretical.
Change the assumptions in the calculator
Cheaper, and scored at least as capable
Every model below costs less on a blended rate and carries a capability score at least as high as Qwen3 Next 80B’s. The score is a rough estimate, not a benchmark — treat it as a shortlist, not a verdict.
| Model | Input | Output | Blended saving | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | $0.1 | $0.5 | 52% | |
| GLM-5.3 Flash | $0.15 | $0.5 | 42% | |
| MiMo V2.6 Flash | $0.14 | $0.28 | 58% | |
| GPT-6 Luna | $0.1 | $0.5 | 52% |
Head to head
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Specification
| Context window | 262K tokens |
|---|---|
| Maximum output | 66K tokens |
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Status | Retired by its vendor |
| Reasoning model | Yes |
| Vision | No |
| Token counting | Estimated at ~3.5 characters per token (Estimate — Qwen tokenizer, calibrated for mixed English/Chinese) |
Price history
PromptSpend has recorded Qwen3 Next 80B since 2026-08-02, and none of its rates has changed in that time. Tracking began on 2026-08-02, so anything the vendor did before then is not on record here.
Every row, with the commit that published it, is in the price-history dataset; price news is also available as an Atom feed.
Where these numbers come from
Last checked against its source on 2026-09-17. Source of record: the vendor’s own published pricing.
The vendor page a human checked
Regional and data-residency premiums, priority tiers, server-side tool fees and negotiated discounts are not included. Prices change without notice; this page is rebuilt every time the catalog does.
Common questions
How much does Qwen3 Next 80B cost?
Qwen3 Next 80B costs $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $1.2 per 1M output tokens at the standard tier, as last checked against the vendor’s own published pricing on 2026-09-17.
How much does Qwen3 Next 80B cost to run for a month?
On PromptSpend's three standard workloads, Qwen3 Next 80B costs about $786 for a support chatbot, $83.70 for a document summarizer and $502 for a coding agent each month. No prompt caching and no batch discount is assumed, and the same workloads are costed on every model page, so the figures compare directly.
Is there a cheaper alternative to Qwen3 Next 80B?
Yes. Claude Haiku 5.5 ($0.1 in, $0.5 out), GLM-5.3 Flash ($0.15 in, $0.5 out) and MiMo V2.6 Flash ($0.14 in, $0.28 out) cost less on a blended rate and carry a capability score at least as high. The score is a rough estimate, not a benchmark, so treat the list as a shortlist.
How large is the context window of Qwen3 Next 80B?
Qwen3 Next 80B accepts up to 262K tokens of context and can produce up to 66K tokens of output.
Has the price of Qwen3 Next 80B changed?
No vendor change is on record. PromptSpend has recorded Qwen3 Next 80B since 2026-08-02 and none of its rates has moved. PromptSpend began tracking prices on 2026-08-02, so earlier changes are not on record.
Where do the prices for Qwen3 Next 80B come from?
They come from the vendor’s own published pricing and were last checked on 2026-09-17. Regional and data-residency premiums, priority tiers, server-side tool fees and negotiated discounts are not included.