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Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 vs Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B

Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B wins on more metrics (5 of 9), but the right pick depends on what you optimize for — see the breakdown below.

MetricMistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B
Intelligence Index14.815.3
Coding Index10.011.0
GPQA Diamond47%62%
Design Arena Elo11121011
Speed (tokens/sec)2298
Latency254ms260ms
Input price /M$0.150$0.120
Output price /M$0.150$0.500
Context window262K131K
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