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

Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 wins on more metrics (7 of 9), but the right pick depends on what you optimize for — see the breakdown below.

MetricMistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
Intelligence Index14.814.3
Coding Index10.07.3
GPQA Diamond47%43%
Design Arena Elo1112
Speed (tokens/sec)2256
Latency254ms542ms
Input price /M$0.150$0.080
Output price /M$0.150$0.500
Context window262K256K
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