Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Compare Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 by Mistral AI against Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B by Qwen, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is 3.2x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
Input
$0.10
1.6× cheaper
Output
$0.30
3.2× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Input
$0.16
Output
$0.97
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is cheaper on both — 1.6× input, 3.2× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
38%
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B uses 160.3x more emoji
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
50%Vocabulary59%
17wSentence Length15w
0.56Hedging0.31
4.3Bold4.9
5.7Lists2.7
0.00Emoji1.60
0.05Headings0.75
0.34Transitions0.05
Based on 21 + 27 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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