Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct vs Mistral Large 3 2512

API pricing, benchmark indices and specs — updated 20 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights

Params

81.3 B

Context

262,144

30d

157 K

apache-2.0 · commercial OK

mistralai · B · API-only

Input / 1M

$0.50

Output / 1M

$1.50

AA index

9.3

proprietary · 262.1K context

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification	Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct	Mistral Large 3 2512
Deployment	Open weights · also via API	API-only (closed weights)
Parameters	81.3 B	n/a — API-only
Architecture	Qwen3NextForCausalLM	n/a — API-only
Context length	262,144	262,144
Licence	apache-2.0	Proprietary
Commercial use	Allowed	Per API terms
Languages	—	n/a — API-only
Downloads 30d	157,094	n/a — API-only
Downloads all time	16.7 M	n/a — API-only
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	n/a — API-only
Gated	No	n/a — API-only
First seen on the Hub	2025-09-09	n/a — API-only
API input price / 1M tokens	$0.09	$0.50
API output price / 1M tokens	$1.10	$1.50
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens	$1.19	$2.00
Cached input / 1M tokens	—	$0.05
AA Intelligence Index	9.6	9.3
AA Coding Index	—	20.1
AA Agentic Index	—	1
Max output tokens	16,384	209,715
API providers	3	1
Tool calling	Yes	Yes
Reasoning mode	No	No

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

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct $1.19

Mistral Large 3 2512 $2.00

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is 1.7× cheaper at list price.

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

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct · fp16 @ 256K ctx 569.8 GB / 24 GB

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