Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Mistral AI
Magistral Small was created as an efficient reasoning-focused variant, designed to bring analytical capabilities to applications with tighter resource constraints. Built to balance problem-solving depth with practical deployment needs, it extends reasoning-enhanced AI to broader use cases.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-Next 80B Base was introduced as an experimental base model with 80 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters. Built to explore advanced mixture-of-experts architectures, it provides a foundation for fine-tuning and research into efficient large-scale model design.
3 months newer

Magistral Small 2506
Mistral AI
2025-06-10

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-09-10
Magistral Small 2506
2025-06-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Magistral Small 2506

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Magistral Small 2506

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base