Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. 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-Next-80B-A3B-Base is a language model developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. 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.
10 months newer
Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
2024-10-16
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-09-10
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 11 common benchmarks
Ministral 8B Instruct
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base
Available providers and their performance metrics
Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base
Ministral 8B Instruct
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base
Ministral 8B Instruct
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base