Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3 30B A3B offers 190.5K more tokens in context window than Mistral Small. Both models have similar pricing. Qwen3 30B A3B is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Mistral AI
Mistral Small was created as an efficient model offering, designed to provide capable language understanding with reduced computational requirements. Built to serve cost-sensitive applications while maintaining quality, it enables Mistral's technology in scenarios where resource efficiency is valued.
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.
7 months newer

Mistral Small
Mistral AI
2024-09-17

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

Mistral Small

Qwen3 30B A3B
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics

Mistral Small
Mistral AI

Qwen3 30B A3B

Mistral Small

Qwen3 30B A3B

Mistral Small

Qwen3 30B A3B
DeepInfra
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