What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3 Coder Next Base?

Qwen3 Coder Next Base requires approximately 159.4 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 256K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3 Coder Next Base and how large is it?

Qwen3 Coder Next Base is developed by Qwen, a model with 79.7b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Qwen3 Coder Next Base?

Qwen3 Coder Next Base is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3 Coder Next Base by Qwen — VRAM 159.4GB, 256K context

Name: Qwen3 Coder Next Base
Author: Qwen

Qwen3 Coder Next Base is an open-source language model by Qwen. Features: 79.7b LLM, VRAM: 159.4GB, Context: 256K, License: apache-2.0, Code Generating, LLM Explorer Score: 0.27.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-Next-Base

Qwen3 Coder Next Base Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3 Coder Next Base
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-Next-Base
Model Size	79.7b
Required VRAM	159.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-07
Maintainer	Qwen
Model Type	qwen3_next
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Generates Code	Yes
Model Architecture	Qwen3NextForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.57.0.dev0
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Qwen3 Coder Next Mxfp4	256K / 42 GB	241	1
Qwen3 Coder Next	256K / 159.4 GB	976	27
Qwen3 Coder Next Base	256K / 159.4 GB	22	7
Qwen3 Coder Next 4bit	256K / 44.9 GB	5062	28

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-Next-Base.