Mistral Devstral Medium vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Compare Mistral Devstral Medium by Mistral AI against Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview by Qwen, tested across 49 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Mistral Devstral MediumRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
Mistral Devstral Medium is 3.1x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Mistral Devstral Medium
Input
$0.40
2.6× cheaper
Output
$2.00
3.1× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Input
$1.04
Output
$6.24
Mistral Devstral Medium is cheaper on both — 2.6× input, 3.1× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
33%
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview uses 188.4x more emoji
Mistral Devstral Medium
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview
50%Vocabulary62%
17wSentence Length21w
0.56Hedging0.22
4.5Bold3.8
5.3Lists2.9
0.00Emoji1.88
0.19Headings0.62
0.32Transitions0.02
Based on 21 + 26 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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