Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3 235B A22B leads with 3.9% higher average benchmark score. Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct supports multimodal inputs. Qwen3 235B A22B is available on 4 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Mistral AI
Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct was developed as the instruction-tuned version of the 3.1 base model, designed to deliver improved instruction-following with refinements from the updated architecture. Built to serve diverse applications with enhanced reliability, it advances the Small model line's capabilities.
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 3.1 24B Instruct
Mistral AI
2025-03-17

Qwen3 235B A22B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct

Qwen3 235B A22B
Available providers and their performance metrics

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct

Qwen3 235B A22B
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Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct

Qwen3 235B A22B

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct

Qwen3 235B A22B
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