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Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Next

qwen/qwen3-coder-next

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Qwen3-Coder-Next is an open-weight causal language model optimized for coding agents and local development workflows. It uses a sparse MoE design with 80B total parameters and only 3B activated per token, delivering performance comparable to models with 10 to 20x higher active compute, which makes it well suited for cost-sensitive, always-on agent deployment.

The model is trained with a strong agentic focus and performs reliably on long-horizon coding tasks, complex tool usage, and recovery from execution failures. With a native 256k context window, it integrates cleanly into real-world CLI and IDE environments and adapts well to common agent scaffolds used by modern coding tools. The model operates exclusively in non-thinking mode and does not emit <think> blocks, simplifying integration for production coding agents.

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Input Price

$0.11per 1M

Output Price

$0.80per 1M

Context

262K

Weekly Tokens

23.9B

Released

Feb 4, 2026

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Sample code and API for Qwen3 Coder Next

OpenRouter normalizes requests and responses across providers for you.

1

Get your API key

Create an API key from your OpenRouter dashboard and set it as an environment variable:

2

Make your first request

Use qwen/qwen3-coder-next with the OpenRouter API:

OpenRouter provides an OpenAI-compatible completion API to 400+ models & providers that you can call directly, or using the OpenAI SDK. Additionally, some third-party SDKs are available.

In the examples below, the OpenRouter-specific headers are optional. Setting them allows your app to appear on the OpenRouter leaderboards.

Using third-party SDKs

For information about using third-party SDKs and frameworks with OpenRouter, please see our frameworks documentation.

3

Enable streaming

Add "stream": true to your request body to receive responses as server-sent events:

Endpoint

POSThttps://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions
AuthorizationBearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY
Content-Typeapplication/json
HTTP-Refereroptional — your site URL, for rankings
X-Titleoptional — your site name, for rankings
Modelqwen/qwen3-coder-next

Parameters

NameTypeDefaultDescription
max_tokensinteger—This sets the upper limit for the number of tokens the model can generate in response.
temperaturefloat1This setting influences the variety in the model's responses.
top_pfloat1This setting limits the model's choices to a percentage of likely tokens: only the top tokens whose probabilities add up to P.
frequency_penaltyfloat0This setting aims to control the repetition of tokens based on how often they appear in the input.
presence_penaltyfloat0Adjusts how often the model repeats specific tokens already used in the input.
stoparray—Stop generation immediately if the model encounter any token specified in the stop array.
seedinteger—If specified, the inferencing will sample deterministically, such that repeated requests with the same seed and parameters should return the same result.
toolsarray—Tool calling parameter, following OpenAI's tool calling request shape.
tool_choicestring or object—Controls which (if any) tool is called by the model.
response_formatmap—Forces the model to produce specific output format.