Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct offers 65.5K more tokens in context window than Mistral Small. Mistral Small is $0.85 cheaper per million tokens. 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 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.
11 months newer

Mistral Small
Mistral AI
2024-09-17

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

Mistral Small

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
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Mistral Small
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Mistral Small

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Mistral Small

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