Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct vs o4-mini-deep-research: API price and specs

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is 95% cheaper than o4-mini-deep-research on input price.

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is 92% cheaper than o4-mini-deep-research on output price.

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is 94% cheaper than o4-mini-deep-research on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has a 31.1% larger context than o4-mini-deep-research.

Field	Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct	o4-mini-deep-research
Lowest input, per 1M	$0.09	$1.80 +1900%
Median input, per 1M	$0.14	$1.90 +1257.1%
Lowest output, per 1M	$0.55	$7.20 +1204.3%
Median output, per 1M	$1.18	$7.60 +542.7%
Lowest unit price	—	—
Cost of 1M in + 200k out	$0.20	$3.24 +1516.8%
Context	262K	200K +23.7%
Max output	262K	100K +61.8%
Providers	16	2 +87.5%
Regions	EU, GLOBAL, US	US
Accepts	image, text, video	file, image, text
Returns	text	text
Type	Text models	Text models
Free option	no	no
Cheapest provider	deepinfra	poe

Your own workload: how many tokens the model gets (input) and gives back (output) - for example, in a month. The "Cost" row of the table above is recalculated for these numbers, for each model.

Computed from current offers each time the page opens; the best value of a row is bold, the percent is how far behind the best.

Providers selling both

edenai, poe

Frequently asked questions

Which is cheaper, Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct or o4-mini-deep-research?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is 95% cheaper than o4-mini-deep-research on input price. Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is 92% cheaper than o4-mini-deep-research on output price. Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is 94% cheaper than o4-mini-deep-research on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Which has the larger context, Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct or o4-mini-deep-research?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 262K tokens; o4-mini-deep-research: 200K tokens.

Where can I use both Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct and o4-mini-deep-research?

edenai, poe