Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking vs Mercury 2
API pricing, benchmark indices and specs — updated 19 October 2026.
Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
81.3 B
Context
262,144
30d
38 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
inception · B · API-only
Input / 1M
$0.25
Output / 1M
$0.75
AA index
10.8
proprietary · 128K context
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking | Mercury 2 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 128,000 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | Proprietary |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Per API terms |
| Languages | — | n/a — API-only |
| Downloads 30d | 38,286 | n/a — API-only |
| Downloads all time | 2.5 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 | $0.15 | $0.25 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $1.20 | $0.75 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $1.35 | $1.00 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | — | $0.025 |
| AA Intelligence Index | 11.2 | 10.8 |
| AA Coding Index | 17.4 | 31.1 |
| AA Agentic Index | — | 1.6 |
| Max output tokens | 235,929 | 50,000 |
| API providers | 1 | 1 |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | Yes | Yes |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
$1.35
Mercury 2
$1.00
Mercury 2 is 1.3× cheaper at list price.
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking · fp16 @ 256K ctx
569.8 GB / 24 GB