Model comparison
Mistral Large 4 vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
Mistral Large 4 and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.1 vs 43.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Large 4 scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 31.1 to 22.5.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is cheaper at $0.50 / $2 per million input/output tokens, against $0.68 / $2.09 for Mistral Large 4.
- Mistral Large 4 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mistral Large 4 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 43.1 | 43.0 |
| Released | 2026-10-06 | 2025-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1.05M | 131K |
| Max output | 262K | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.68 | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2.09 | $2 |
| Results tracked | 15 | 25 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Large 4 leads
Mistral Large 4: 48.6 (#57), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 42.5 (#98)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 4 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1475 | 1440 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1541 | — |
Reasoning Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Mistral Large 4: 22.5 (#192), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 31.1 (#81)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 4 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1444 | 1428 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 66.7% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 27.4% | — |
Math Mistral Large 4 leads
Mistral Large 4: 40.4 (#91), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 38.8 (#126)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 4 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1488 | 1440 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 46.7% |
Knowledge Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Mistral Large 4: 36.6 (#166), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.8 (#106)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 4 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1447 | 1417 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 20% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 63% |
Multilingual Too close to call
Mistral Large 4: 52.6 (#82), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.1 (#93)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 4 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1415 | 1407 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1491 | 1460 |
| LMArena Russian | 1414 | 1404 |
| LMArena French | — | 1413 |
| LMArena German | — | 1417 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1395 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1364 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1435 |
Instruction Following Mistral Large 4 leads
Mistral Large 4: 75.0 (#76), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 70.8 (#159)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 4 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1424 | 1389 |
| IFEval | — | 81% |
Long Context Mistral Large 4 leads
Mistral Large 4: 43.6 (#89), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#223)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 4 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1429 | 1403 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 55.6% |
Writing & Preference Mistral Large 4 leads
Mistral Large 4: 60.4 (#97), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.0 (#121)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 4 | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1427 | 1417 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1361 | 1334 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1424 | 1416 |
| WildBench | — | 80.7% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Large 4 better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
Mistral Large 4 and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.1 vs 43.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Mistral Large 4 or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens; Mistral Large 4 lists at $0.68 and $2.09.
Is Mistral Large 4 or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?
Mistral Large 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.6 versus 42.5 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Mistral Large 4 does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Large 4 and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Large 4 has 15 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.