Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3 235B A22B leads with 21.6% higher average benchmark score. Both models have similar pricing. Qwen3 235B A22B is available on 4 providers. Overall, Qwen3 235B A22B is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Mistral AI
Ministral 8B was developed as a compact yet capable model from Mistral AI, designed to provide strong instruction-following with just 8 billion parameters. Built for applications requiring efficient deployment while maintaining reliable performance, it represents Mistral's smallest production-ready offering.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 235B was developed as a large-scale model with 235 billion total parameters using a mixture-of-experts architecture activating 22 billion parameters. Built to provide frontier capabilities with computational efficiency through sparse activation, it represents Qwen's advancement into very large-scale model development.
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Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
2024-10-16

Qwen3 235B A22B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Ministral 8B Instruct

Qwen3 235B A22B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

Ministral 8B Instruct

Qwen3 235B A22B
Available providers and their performance metrics

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI

Qwen3 235B A22B

Ministral 8B Instruct

Qwen3 235B A22B

Ministral 8B Instruct

Qwen3 235B A22B
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