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Start with Mistral Small 4 and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking, or choose any two current ranked language models. Compare capability evidence, price, context, provider availability, and weight access without pretending one field decides every use case.

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Mistral Small 4 vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking

Live dataset updated 9/9/2026, 9:50:24 PM UTC

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Factual comparison of Mistral Small 4 and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Field
Mistral Small 4

Mistral AI

ModelCap position#97#98
Index score42.041.4
EvidenceMeasured1 public benchmark observation across 1 boardMeasured2 public benchmark observations across 2 boards
Input / 1M$0.15$0.15
Output / 1M$0.60$1.20
Pricing statusfreshfresh
Context262K262K
Providers22
Weight accessOpen weightsOpen weights

Decision facts

  • Mistral Small 4 is #97; Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking is #98 on the same current language board.
  • Index scores are 42.0 for Mistral Small 4 and 41.4 for Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.
  • Both positions use Measured evidence.
  • Listed output price per 1M tokens is $0.60 for Mistral Small 4 and $1.20 for Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking. For 1,000 requests with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each (2M input + 0.5M output), the listed-rate estimate is $0.60 for Mistral Small 4 versus $0.90 for Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking. Mistral Small 4 costs 33.3% less in this scenario. This excludes caching, batch discounts, prompt-length tiers, tool charges and retries; verify the selected endpoint before budgeting.
  • Published context is 262,144 tokens for Mistral Small 4 and 262,144 for Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking.

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