Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking

DeprecatedAlibaba Cloud (Qwen)alibaba/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking1 platform

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Shutting down. Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking shuts down on Google Vertex AI on Oct 21, 2026.

7 days

Next shutdown: 7 daysOct 21, 2026 · Google Vertex AI
Arena Text: 1,369#88 of 128 · Arena

Dates on every platform

1 listings · a floor is the earliest possible date

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking on each platform: model ID, status, dates, replacement and source
Platform	Model ID and status	Deprecated	Shuts down	Replacement
Google Vertex AIGoogle Cloud: Open model deprecations (opens in a new tab) · checked Oct 14, 2026	`qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking-maas`Deprecated	Jul 21, 2026	Oct 21, 20267 days	–

Google suggests self-deploying the model from Model Garden or moving to another managed endpoint.

What breaks when you move off Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking

Availability
API requests to the retired model IDs fail after the retirement date.
DeepSeek-R1, DeepSeek-V3.2, DeepSeek-V3.1, GLM-5, GLM-4.7, gpt-oss-20b, Kimi K2 Thinking, Llama 3.3 70B Instruct, MiniMax-M2, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507, Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct, Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking · Google Vertex AI · Oct 21, 2026

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Third-party results, credited below

Third-party benchmark scores for Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Benchmark	Publisher	Score	Rank	Published
Arena Text	Arena	1,369 ± 3	#88 of 128	Oct 8, 2026

Arena (arena.ai), https://arena.ai/leaderboard

Change history

Oct 21, 2026ShutdownDeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, Llama, MiniMax, Qwen and GPT OSS endpoints retire on Agent PlatformGoogle Vertex AI1 break

Google retires its managed endpoints for DeepSeek, GLM, GPT OSS 20B, Kimi K2 Thinking, Llama 3.3 70B, MiniMax M2 and Qwen3 models on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. Google suggests self-deploying them from Model Garden.

Platform: Google Vertex AI
Models: DeepSeek-R1, DeepSeek-V3.2, DeepSeek-V3.1, GLM-5, GLM-4.7, gpt-oss-20b, Kimi K2 Thinking, Llama 3.3 70B Instruct, MiniMax-M2, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507, Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct, Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Announced: Jul 21, 2026

AvailabilityAPI requests to the retired model IDs fail after the retirement date.

Source: Google Cloud, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform release notes (opens in a new tab); Google Cloud, Open model deprecations (opens in a new tab)