Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Ministral 8B Instruct offers 124.9K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct. Ministral 8B Instruct is $1.45 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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-Next 80B Instruct was developed as the instruction-tuned version of Qwen3-Next 80B, designed to combine large-scale mixture-of-experts architecture with reliable instruction-following. Built to demonstrate efficient deployment of capable models, it balances advanced performance with practical computational efficiency.
10 months newer

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
2024-10-16

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-09-10
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Ministral 8B Instruct

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Ministral 8B Instruct

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Ministral 8B Instruct

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
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