Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Ministral 8B Instruct leads with 2.6% higher average benchmark score. Both models have similar pricing. Qwen3 32B is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Mistral AI
Ministral 8B Instruct is a language model developed by Mistral AI. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 63.3% across 11 benchmarks. It excels particularly in MT-Bench (83.0%), Winogrande (75.3%), ARC-C (71.9%). It supports a 256K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 1 API provider. Released in 2024, it represents Mistral AI's latest advancement in AI technology.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 32B is a language model developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 72.0% across 9 benchmarks. It excels particularly in Arena Hard (93.8%), AIME 2024 (81.4%), LiveBench (74.9%). It supports a 256K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 3 API providers. It's licensed for commercial use, making it suitable for enterprise applications. Released in 2025, it represents Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team's latest advancement in AI technology.
6 months newer
Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
2024-10-16
Qwen3 32B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Ministral 8B Instruct
Qwen3 32B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 19 common benchmarks
Ministral 8B Instruct
Qwen3 32B
Available providers and their performance metrics
Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
Qwen3 32B
Ministral 8B Instruct
Qwen3 32B
Ministral 8B Instruct
Qwen3 32B
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