Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. 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-Next 80B Base was introduced as an experimental base model with 80 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters. Built to explore advanced mixture-of-experts architectures, it provides a foundation for fine-tuning and research into efficient large-scale model design.
11 months newer

Mistral Small
Mistral AI
2024-09-17

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-09-10
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics

Mistral Small
Mistral AI

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Mistral Small

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Mistral Small

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base