Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3 30B A3B leads with 19.8% higher average benchmark score. Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct supports multimodal inputs. Qwen3 30B A3B is available on 3 providers. Overall, Qwen3 30B A3B is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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 30B was created with a mixture-of-experts architecture featuring 30 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters. Built to provide strong capabilities with efficient inference through sparse activation, it balances performance with practical computational requirements.
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Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct
Mistral AI
2025-03-17

Qwen3 30B A3B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct

Qwen3 30B A3B
Available providers and their performance metrics

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct

Qwen3 30B A3B
DeepInfra

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct

Qwen3 30B A3B

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct

Qwen3 30B A3B
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