# Qwen 3 Coder Next API

Alibaba's Qwen 3 Coder Next, through an OpenAI-compatible API. Providers quote it on an open exchange, and each request goes to the offer with the lowest estimated charge that meets your rules.

- Providers compete for each request. The exchange ranks the offers that meet your rules by estimated charge. It fixes your maximum charge before the first token, and you pay for the tokens that the model uses.
- The OpenAI and Anthropic APIs. Use the OpenAI or Anthropic SDK that you have. Set the base URL and your key, and send qwen3-coder-next as the model.
- Your data rules. Send x-liquid-retention: none and only offers whose provider does not keep your content compete for the request.

## Facts

- Model name: qwen3-coder-next
- Maker: Alibaba
- Context window: 262.1K tokens
- Input price: $0.120 per million tokens
- Output price: $0.801 per million tokens
- Providers: 1 independent provider
- Regions: us

## Providers

- [Architect](https://liquidinference.ai/providers/805445a7-0e40-4c1b-9baf-7b3b01e30e42.md): us, $0.120 input and $0.801 output per million tokens, $0.070 cache read per million tokens, 262.1K tokens of context

## Scores

- HLE: 10.1, #161 of 273
- GPQA: 73.7, #142 of 250
- AA-LCR: 47.0, #166 of 237
- SciCode: 36.2, #107 of 123
- Terminal-Bench Hard: 18.2, #97 of 166
- τ²-Bench: 79.5, #65 of 169
- IFBench: 35.2, #142 of 178

Scores: Artificial Analysis (https://artificialanalysis.ai/)

## Request

```sh
curl https://router.inference.ai.exchange/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LIQUID_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "qwen3-coder-next",
    "messages": [{"role":"user","content":"Say hello."}]
  }'
```

## Questions

### What is Qwen 3 Coder Next?

Served by intent-router: each job goes to the cheapest healthy upstream for this model.

### How much does Qwen 3 Coder Next cost?

Offers now ask $0.120 per million input tokens and $0.801 per million output tokens. A job pays for the tokens it uses. The exchange picks the cheapest eligible offer.

### What is the context length of Qwen 3 Coder Next?

The largest offer takes 262,144 input tokens. A smaller offer can take less. The exchange skips an offer that cannot take your message.

### What can Qwen 3 Coder Next do?

Its providers list Reasoning effort, JSON object, JSON schema, Frequency penalty, Logit bias, Log probabilities, Min-p sampling, Presence penalty, Repetition penalty, Seed, Stop sequences, Top-k sampling, Top-p sampling, Text, Tools.

### What inputs and outputs does Qwen 3 Coder Next support?

Text → Text.

### Which providers serve Qwen 3 Coder Next?

1 independent provider quote it now, with 1 offer. The table above ranks them by the cost of a typical job.

### How do I call Qwen 3 Coder Next?

Send "qwen3-coder-next" as the model in an OpenAI or Anthropic request. The API section links to setup steps for each client.

### When was Qwen 3 Coder Next listed?

The exchange first listed it on 10/8/2026. This is not its release date.

## Related pages

- [This page in a browser](https://liquidinference.ai/models/qwen3-coder-next)
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- [Qwen 3.8 27B](https://liquidinference.ai/models/qwen3.8-27b.md)
- [Qwen 3 5 4B](https://liquidinference.ai/models/qwen3-5-4b.md)
- [Qwen 3.5 9B](https://liquidinference.ai/models/qwen3.5-9b.md)
- [Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct](https://liquidinference.ai/models/qwen2.5-7b-instruct.md)
- [Qwen 3.6 35B a3b](https://liquidinference.ai/models/qwen3.6-35b-a3b.md)
- [Set up a client](https://liquidinference.ai/connect/qwen3-coder-next)
- [All models](https://liquidinference.ai/models)
- [Providers](https://liquidinference.ai/providers.md)
- [Discover the best model for your budget](https://liquidinference.ai/discover)
- [Quickstart](https://liquidinference.ai/docs/quickstart.md)
- [llms.txt: the index of every page, as Markdown](https://liquidinference.ai/llms.txt)
- [llms-full.txt: every page in one file](https://liquidinference.ai/llms-full.txt)