The closest alternative to Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct is Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025 — comparable intelligence (19.4 vs 20.1); for a cheaper option, Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) runs Free/M vs $0.090/M; for more speed, gpt-oss-120b (free) hits 538 t/s; and the best open-weight substitute is MiniMax M3.
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025 is the closest alternative to Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct, with an Intelligence Index of 19.4 (Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct scores 20.1) at $0.100 per million input tokens.
Yes — Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) costs Free per million input tokens versus $0.090 for Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct, while staying within ~8 points of its Intelligence Index.
MiniMax M3 is the strongest open-weight alternative to Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct — downloadable from Hugging Face and self-hostable, scoring 54.7 on intelligence.