Qwen3-32B vs Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
32.8 B
Context
40,960
30d
2.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
81.3 B
Context
262,144
30d
38 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-32B Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 32.8 B 81.3 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen3NextForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 2,750,187 38,286
Downloads all time 60.7 M 2.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-09-09
API input price / 1M tokens $0.08 $0.15
API output price / 1M tokens $0.28 $1.20
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.36 $1.35
Cached input / 1M tokens — —
AA Intelligence Index 7.3 11.2
AA Coding Index — 17.4
AA Agentic Index — —
Max output tokens 16,384 235,929
API providers 3 1
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Qwen3-32B $0.36
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking $1.35

Qwen3-32B is 3.7× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

10.1 M39 K
Qwen3-32B Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Qwen3-32B · fp16 77.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking · fp16 @ 256K ctx 569.8 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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