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Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct deprecated, retires 2026-10-10 → Qwen3.7 Plus

Alibaba's Qwen has deprecated Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct on Alibaba Model Studio, with the model set to retire on 2026-10-10 under the provider's deprecation policy. The model carries a 131k context window, 33k max output, and pricing of $0.144 per 1M input tokens and $0.574 per 1M output tokens, and the listing points users toward Qwen3.7 Plus as the successor.

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Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct deprecated, retires 2026-10-10 → Qwen3.7 Plus
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QW✕ Retired

Alibaba (Qwen) · qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct Alibaba Model Studio deprecation policy: retires 2026-10-10.

Provider statement → qwentext131k context33k max out$0.144 / $0.574 per 1M

also matches:

`qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct`` alibaba/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct`
[provider announcement →](https://models.dev/alibaba/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct)

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