Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3 30B A3B leads with 20.1% higher average benchmark score. Both models have similar pricing. Qwen3 30B A3B is available on 3 providers. Overall, Qwen3 30B A3B 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 30B was created with a mixture-of-experts architecture featuring 30 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters. Built to provide strong capabilities with efficient inference through sparse activation, it balances performance with practical computational requirements.
6 months newer

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
2024-10-16

Qwen3 30B A3B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Ministral 8B Instruct

Qwen3 30B A3B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Ministral 8B Instruct

Qwen3 30B A3B
Available providers and their performance metrics

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI

Qwen3 30B A3B

Ministral 8B Instruct

Qwen3 30B A3B

Ministral 8B Instruct

Qwen3 30B A3B
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