Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Qwen3 30B A3B offers 192.0K more tokens in context window than Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct. Both models have similar pricing. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Mistral AI
Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct is a language model developed by Mistral AI. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 71.7% across 8 benchmarks. It excels particularly in Arena Hard (87.6%), HumanEval (84.8%), MT-Bench (83.5%). The model is available through 2 API providers. It's licensed for commercial use, making it suitable for enterprise applications. Released in 2025, it represents Mistral AI's latest advancement in AI technology.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 30B A3B is a language model developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 73.3% across 8 benchmarks. It excels particularly in Arena Hard (91.0%), AIME 2024 (80.4%), LiveBench (74.3%). It supports a 256K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 3 API providers. It's licensed for commercial use, making it suitable for enterprise applications. Released in 2025, it represents Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team's latest advancement in AI technology.
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Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
Mistral AI
2025-01-30
Qwen3 30B A3B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
Qwen3 30B A3B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 14 common benchmarks
Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
Qwen3 30B A3B
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 30B A3B
Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
Qwen3 30B A3B
Qwen3 30B A3B
DeepInfra
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