Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 vs Qwen3 Coder
Compare Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 by Mistral AI against Qwen3 Coder by Qwen, in 17 community votes, qwen3 coder wins 73% of head-to-head duels, tested across 55 shared challenges.
Reasoning: Qwen3 Coder wins 64% of votes
Web Design: Qwen3 Coder wins 100% of votes
Our Verdict
Qwen3 CoderWinner
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1Runner-up
Pick Qwen3 Coder. In 17 blind votes, Qwen3 Coder wins 73% of the time. That's not luck.
Qwen3 Coder particularly excels in Web Design, Reasoning. Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is 3.2x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Clear winner
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
Input
$0.10
2.2× cheaper
Output
$0.30
3.2× cheaper
Qwen3 Coder
Input
$0.22
Output
$0.95
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is cheaper on both — 2.2× input, 3.2× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
51%
Qwen3 Coder uses 11.6x more emoji
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
Qwen3 Coder
50%Vocabulary61%
17wSentence Length72w
0.56Hedging0.61
4.3Bold4.7
5.7Lists5.6
0.00Emoji0.12
0.05Headings1.43
0.34Transitions0.20
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Research
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