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Mistral: Ministral 3 14B 2512 vs Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking

MMistral: Ministral 3 14B 2512mistralai/ministral-14b-2512VSQQwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinkingqwen/qwen3-vl-8b-thinking

Mistral: Ministral 3 14B 2512 wins on more metrics (5 of 9), but the right pick depends on what you optimize for — see the breakdown below.

MetricMistral: Ministral 3 14B 2512Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking
Intelligence Index16.016.7✓
Coding Index10.9✓9.8
GPQA Diamond57%58%✓
Design Arena Elo1126✓—
Speed (tokens/sec)60129✓
Latency230ms✓502ms
Input price /M$0.200$0.117✓
Output price /M$0.200✓$1.36
Context window262K✓256K
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