Alibaba: qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct:free

The flagship instruction-tuned model of the Qwen3-Next series, released by Alibaba Cloud on September 11, 2025. It features a revolutionary Hybrid Attention architecture, combining Gated DeltaNet (linear attention) and standard Gated Attention. With 80B total parameters, it activates only 3.9B per token during inference (A3B). Designed for Non-Thinking tasks, this model skips visible reasoning traces in favor of near-instant, high-precision answers. Trained on 15 trillion tokens, its performance rivals the Qwen3-235B flagship while offering superior efficiency for ultra-long context (256k+) and high-concurrency Agentic workflows. It stands as the premier price-performance leader for production-grade AI deployments in 2026.