Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3 235B A22B leads with 3.3% higher average benchmark score. Qwen3 235B A22B offers 192.0K more tokens in context window than Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct. Both models have similar pricing. Qwen3 235B A22B is available on 4 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Mistral AI
Mistral Small 24B Instruct was created as the instruction-tuned version of the 24B base model, designed to follow user instructions reliably. Built to serve general-purpose applications requiring moderate capability, it balances performance with deployment practicality.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 235B was developed as a large-scale model with 235 billion total parameters using a mixture-of-experts architecture activating 22 billion parameters. Built to provide frontier capabilities with computational efficiency through sparse activation, it represents Qwen's advancement into very large-scale model development.
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Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
Mistral AI
2025-01-30

Qwen3 235B A22B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Qwen3 235B A22B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Qwen3 235B A22B
Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
2023-10-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
DeepInfra
Mistral AI


Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Qwen3 235B A22B

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Qwen3 235B A22B
Qwen3 235B A22B
DeepInfra
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