Overview
Qwen3-Coder-Next Overview
Qwen3-Coder-Next, developed by Qwen, is an open-weight causal language model specifically designed for coding agents and local development. Despite having 80 billion total parameters, it operates with only 3 billion activated parameters, achieving significant performance comparable to models 10-20 times larger, which makes it highly cost-effective for agent deployment.
Key Capabilities
- Super Efficient Performance: Achieves high performance with a small active parameter count, optimizing for cost-effectiveness.
- Advanced Agentic Features: Excels in long-horizon reasoning, complex tool usage, and robust recovery from execution failures.
- Versatile IDE Integration: Supports a native 262,144 token context length and adapts to various scaffold templates for seamless integration with diverse CLI/IDE platforms.
- MoE Architecture: Utilizes a Mixture of Experts (MoE) with 512 experts (10 activated, 1 shared) for enhanced efficiency.
- Non-Thinking Mode: Designed to not generate
<think></think>blocks, simplifying output for direct code generation and tool use.
Good For
- Developing and deploying coding agents that require robust reasoning and tool-use capabilities.
- Local development environments needing a powerful yet efficient code generation and completion model.
- Applications requiring long context understanding for complex codebases or multi-file projects.
- Scenarios where cost-effective deployment of advanced coding LLMs is crucial.
- Integration into existing CLI/IDE platforms for enhanced developer workflows.