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Qwen3 Coder Next pricing, context window and specs
Qwen3 Coder Next costs $0.12 per million input tokens and $0.80 per million output tokens, and reads up to 262,144 tokens per request. By blended price it is number 4 of Qwen’s 13 current models here, counting from the cheapest.
- Input / 1M
- $0.12
- Output / 1M
- $0.80
- Cached / 1M
- $0.07
- Context
- 262,144
- Max output
- Not published
- Released
- 2026-02-04
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Pricing
Qwen3 Coder Next API pricing
| Price per 1M tokens | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | $0.12 | $0.80 |
| Cached input (read) | $0.07 | – |
Output costs 6.7× the input price, so long replies drive the bill more than long prompts. If your requests share a long fixed prefix, such as a system prompt or tool definitions, caching cuts that part to 58% of the normal input price.
Examples
What Qwen3 Coder Next costs in practice
| Workload | Tokens in / out | Requests/day | Per request | Per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support chatbot50% cached | 1,500 / 400 | 1,000 | $0.000463 | $14.07 |
| RAG app20% cached | 6,000 / 500 | 500 | $0.00106 | $16.12 |
| Coding agent80% cached | 40,000 / 2,000 | 200 | $0.0048 | $29.20 |
| Document summariser | 8,000 / 600 | 300 | $0.00144 | $13.14 |
Change any number in the cost calculator.
Context
Context window
Qwen3 Coder Next accepts up to 262,144 tokens per request, roughly 196,608 English words or 393 pages. That budget is shared between your prompt and the reply, and no separate cap on the reply is published.
Filling the whole window with one prompt costs about $0.0315 at list price, so for repeated long-document work, retrieval (sending only the relevant parts) or prompt caching is usually much cheaper.
Features
Capabilities
- Image input
- No
- Tool / function calling
- Yes
- Reasoning mode
- No
- Prompt caching
- Yes
- Structured output
- Yes
- Open weights
- Yes
- Accepts
- text
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not published
As declared by the provider’s API. It shows a feature exists, not how well it works.
API
Qwen3 Coder Next model ID
- OpenRouter
qwen/qwen3-coder-next- Open weights
- Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-Next
Use the OpenRouter ID when calling it through OpenRouter; Qwen’s own API may name it differently. See the model ID reference for the providers we document.
Qwen
Where Qwen3 Coder Next sits in Qwen’s line-up
Ranked by blended price (three parts input to one part output, $0.29 per 1M for Qwen3 Coder Next), it is number 4 of Qwen’s 13 current models here, counting from the cheapest. One step down, Qwen3.8 Omni Flash costs $0.23 blended (21% less). Unlike Qwen3 Coder Next, it accepts images, audio and video, reads up to 1,000,000 tokens (262,144 here) and has a reasoning mode. One step up, Qwen3.6 35B A3B costs $0.3125 (1.1× as much). Unlike Qwen3 Coder Next, it accepts images and video and has a reasoning mode. See every Qwen model and price
| Model | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.5-9B | $0.10 | $0.15 | 256,000 | 2026-03-10 |
| Qwen3.8 Flash | $0.15 | $0.47 | 1,000,000 | 2026-08-26 |
| Qwen3.8 Omni Flash | $0.15 | $0.47 | 1,000,000 | 2026-09-21 |
| Qwen3 Coder Next (this page) | $0.12 | $0.80 | 262,144 | 2026-02-04 |
| Qwen3.6 35B A3B | $0.10 | $0.95 | 262,144 | 2026-04-27 |
| Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct | $0.25 | $0.75 | 262,144 | 2025-10-14 |
| Qwen3.7 Plus | $0.32 | $1.28 | 1,000,000 | 2026-06-03 |
| Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | $0.26 | $2.08 | 262,144 | 2026-02-25 |
| Qwen3.6 27B | $0.32 | $3.20 | 262,144 | 2026-04-27 |
| Qwen3.5 397B A17B | $0.55 | $3.50 | 262,144 | 2026-02-16 |
| Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B | $2 | $6 | 1,048,576 | 2026-08-12 |
| Qwen3.8 Max (0902) | $2 | $6 | 1,000,000 | 2026-09-03 |
| Qwen3.8 Max Prime | $4 | $12 | 1,000,000 | 2026-09-23 |
Qwen’s current models with a page here, cheapest first. Older and superseded models are listed on the provider page and in the comparison table.
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FAQ
Qwen3 Coder Next questions
How much does Qwen3 Coder Next cost?
Qwen3 Coder Next costs $0.12 per million input tokens and $0.80 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.07. A typical chatbot reply (1,500 tokens in, 400 out) costs about $0.0005. Use the LLM cost calculator for your own workload.
What is Qwen3 Coder Next’s context window?
262,144 tokens, about 196,608 English words or 393 printed pages, shared between your prompt and the reply. No separate limit on the reply is published, so the window is the limit.
Does Qwen3 Coder Next support prompt caching and batch requests?
Yes, cached input is billed at $0.07 per million tokens (58% of the normal input price). No batch price is published for it.
What are cheaper alternatives to Qwen3 Coder Next?
With the same essentials (tool calling), the cheapest options are Ministral 3 3B 2512 (66% cheaper), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (65% cheaper), Gemma 4 26B A4B (63% cheaper). Cheaper doesn’t mean equivalent, so test them on your own prompts.
What is the API model ID for Qwen3 Coder Next?
On OpenRouter it is qwen/qwen3-coder-next. Qwen’s own API may use a different name, so check its model list before you deploy. Pass the ID as the model value in each request.
Is Qwen3 Coder Next open source?
Yes, Qwen3 Coder Next has open weights, so you can run it yourself or choose between several hosting providers. The prices here are a typical hosted price.