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Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512 vs Qwen: Qwen3 8B

MMistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512mistralai/ministral-3b-2512VSQQwen: Qwen3 8Bqwen/qwen3-8b

Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512 and Qwen: Qwen3 8B are evenly matched; the right pick depends on your priorities.

MetricMistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512Qwen: Qwen3 8B
Intelligence Index11.2✓10.6
Coding Index4.87.1✓
GPQA Diamond36%45%✓
Design Arena Elo1072✓—
Speed (tokens/sec)4546✓
Latency253ms✓669ms
Input price /M$0.100$0.050✓
Output price /M$0.100✓$0.400
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Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512 details →Qwen: Qwen3 8B details →