Qwen3-Coder-Next
Qwen3-Coder-Next is an open-weight language model from Alibaba Qwen, released on February 3, 2026.
- Developer
- Alibaba Qwen
- Released
- February 3, 2026
- Total parameters
- 80B
- Active parameters per token
- 3B
- Architecture
- MoE
- Context window
- 256K
- Input
- Text
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Commercial use
- Yes
- Official weights, GB
- 159.3 GB
- Hugging Face repository
- huggingface.co
- Checked on
Qwen3-Coder-Next is a mixture-of-experts model with 80B total parameters, of which 3B are active for each token. Alibaba Qwen lists a context window of 262,144 tokens. The model takes text input. The weights are released under Apache 2.0, which allows commercial use.
The official weights on Hugging Face take about 159 GB. Running the model needs at least that much memory across GPUs and system RAM, plus room for the context cache; quantized versions need less.
- Total parameters, billions
- 80B
- Active parameters, billions
- 3B
- Context window, tokens
- 262.14K
- License type
- Apache 2.0
- License conditions
- Apache 2.0, with no user or revenue limits.
- Official quantized or alternative versions
- Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-Next-FP8; Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-Next-GGUF
- License text
- apache.org
- Sources
Page URL Hugging Face model card https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-Next/raw/main/README.md Hugging Face weights index https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-Next/raw/main/model.safetensors.index.json GitHub file https://raw.githubusercontent.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-Coder/main/README.md Qwen on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/posts/qwen_introducingqwen3-coder-next-an-open-weight-activity-7424484355294576640-1Vi0
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