Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct leads with 20.4% higher average benchmark score. Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct 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-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.
5 months newer

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct
Mistral AI
2025-03-17

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-09-10
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

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Available providers and their performance metrics

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