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Qwen3 Next 80B

Qwen3 Next 80B is a model from Alibaba, run through Amazon Bedrock. It places 5= of 14 on the Hurdle Index, and falls below the 90% bar on pay-gap reasoning.

Lab
Alibaba
Called as
qwen.qwen3-next-80b-a3b
Price, per million tokens
$0.14 in, $1.2 out
Tokens per task
1,889 read, 18,062 written
Output limit
32,000 tokens
Run
23 October 2026, 120 attempts

Hurdle Index

62.3%54.9% to 68.8%. Place 5= of 14.

Cost per task

$0.02211th cheapest of 14. List price of the tokens used.

Time per task

242 s14th fastest of 14. Wall-clock time of each call.

On each benchmark

BenchmarkMean, 95% intervalPlaceEvery runBest of 3Cost per taskCut offBar
Pay-gap reasoning62.3% 54.9% to 68.8%5= of 1441.9%80.7%$0.0221 of 120Below

Every attempt

Pay-gap reasoning: 40 tasks, three attempts each, one cell per attempt. White is a perfect answer, black is none of it right.

Attempt 1
Attempt 2
Attempt 3

Where it misses

The share of each kind of rubric line it got wrong, across every attempt.

Who is in scope37.5%
Mean hourly gap46.7%
Median hourly gap36.7%
Variable pay63.9%
Quartile pay bands50.8%
Gaps by category22.6%
Joint assessment trigger18.3%

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