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Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 vs Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507

MMistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512mistralai/ministral-8b-2512VSQQwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-instruct-2507

Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 wins on more metrics (6 of 9), but the right pick depends on what you optimize for — see the breakdown below.

MetricMistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Intelligence Index14.815.0✓
Coding Index10.014.2✓
GPQA Diamond47%66%✓
Design Arena Elo1112✓—
Speed (tokens/sec)2245✓
Latency254ms245ms✓
Input price /M$0.150$0.048✓
Output price /M$0.150✓$0.193
Context window262K✓131K
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