Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Ministral 8B Instruct offers 124.9K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking. 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 Thinking was created as a reasoning-enhanced variant, designed to incorporate extended analytical capabilities into the Qwen3-Next architecture. Built to handle complex problem-solving with mixture-of-experts efficiency, it serves applications requiring both deep reasoning and computational practicality.
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Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
2024-10-16

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

Ministral 8B Instruct

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

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking

Ministral 8B Instruct

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking

Ministral 8B Instruct

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
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