Qwen3.8 27B is cheaper than Mistral Large 4 at $0.4/M vs $0.68/M input tokens.
Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.
Which answer wins?
Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.
Mistral Large 4: Sunset Honey Garlic Noodles A golden, glossy pasta dish with crispy edges and sweet-savory depth The 7 Ingredients 8 oz spaghetti (or any pasta) 3 tbsp butter 4 cloves garlic, minced 3 tbsp soy sauce 2 tbsp honey 1 tbsp vegetable oil ½ tsp red pepper flakes (optional but recommended) Instructions Boil pasta in salted…
Qwen3.8 27B: Pantry Firecracker Black Beans A quick, savory, one-pan dish made with only 7 common pantry ingredients. Estimated time: Prep: 5 minutes Cook: 10 minutes Total: about 15 minutes Ingredients 1 can black beans, drained 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1/2 teaspoon chili powder 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder…
A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.
Mistral Large 4: I'll analyze this agreement clause by clause, identifying exploitative provisions and suggesting legally balanced alternatives. CLAUSE 1: SCOPE Problems: Unlimited unilateral modification — Client can expand work indefinitely without compensation "As directed" — vague standard creates no objective measure of completion…
Qwen3.8 27B: This is a general contractor-side risk review, not legal advice. The agreement is heavily one-sided and should not be signed as drafted. Many provisions may be negotiable, and some may be unenforceable depending on jurisdiction, but you should not rely on unenforceability as your main protection.
An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.
Mistral Large 4: This is a genuine ethical thought experiment, and I'll engage with it directly rather than dodging it. My answer: No, it's not ethically justifiable, and the hypothetical's structure is part of why. Here's my reasoning: 1. The hypothetical is incoherent as stated.
Qwen3.8 27B: Yes—but only in a very narrow, tragic, last-resort case. I would not say misgendering is “okay” or even a minor thing. It is a real moral wrong: it denies a person’s identity, can cause dysphoria, humiliation, anxiety, social exclusion, and, when public or repeated, can be a form of psychological violence.
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
Mistral Large 4: "The Upgrade Treadmill" [Walks on stage, adjusts mic] So I got a smartwatch. You know, one of those fitness trackers? And the first thing it tells me is my heart rate is too high. I'm like, "It's a WATCH. You're not supposed to judge me, you're supposed to tell me the TIME."
Qwen3.8 27B: Thanks, I’m here. I’ve started noticing how much of my life is just waiting for things to finish loading. My brain loads. My coffee loads. My patience loads. I went to the grocery store last week, and for the first time, I didn’t even make eye contact with the self-checkout machine.
Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.
Mistral Large 4: I'll build this LBO model step by step. Let me work through the math carefully. Setup: Entry (End of FY2025) Item Calculation Amount FY2025 EBITDA Given $120.0m Purchase Price (EV) 12.0x × $120m $1,440.0m Transaction fees 2.0% × $1,440m $28.8m Total Uses $1,468.8m Term Loan 4.0x × $120m $480.0m Mezzanine 1.5x × $120m…
Qwen3.8 27B: All figures in $m unless noted. Assumptions: 12.0x entry multiple is EV/EBITDA. Interest is calculated on beginning-of-year debt balances. Mandatory Term Loan amortization = 1% of original Term Loan = $4.8m/yr. Mezz PIK = 2% of beginning Mezz balance, compounded into principal.
Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.
Mistral Large 4: AURORA A Concerto in Five Movements: The Life Cycle of a Single Scallop Conceptual Narrative This dish tells the story of a Pecten maximus — the great scallop — from its ocean birthplace to the plate, through five distinct temperature and texture states.
Qwen3.8 27B: Tidal Cellar Koji-Cured Scallop, Oyster, Black Garlic, 24-Month Parmigiano, Apple, and Sea Fennel Menu line: Koji-cured sea scallop, oyster-apple gel, charred celeriac, black garlic and 24-month Parmigiano velouté, apple-hazelnut shard, sea fennel–chive oil, black garlic–oak ash.
Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.
Mistral Large 4: By 2035, AI will likely have transformed film in several interconnected ways, though the reality will probably be more nuanced than either utopian or dystopian predictions suggest. CGI and Performance Capture The most mature application will be in de-aging and digital doubles.
Qwen3.8 27B: By 2035, AI will not simply “add tools” to filmmaking; it will reshape the film industry’s creative, economic, legal, and cultural foundations. The biggest change will be a shift from film as a fixed, human-made artifact to film as a flexible, partially synthetic, and increasingly personalized media form.
Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.
Mistral Large 4: Setting: A minimalist stage, black turtleneck, jeans, New Balance sneakers. A single chair. The year is 2025. Interviewer: Steve, it's 2025. AI is everywhere—writing code, diagnosing diseases, driving cars. What's your take? Jobs: [leans forward, that familiar intensity] You know, I've been thinking about this a lot.
Qwen3.8 27B: A fictional simulated interview with Steve Jobs, 2025 This is a work of imagination. Steve Jobs is not alive, and this interview did not happen. Interviewer: Steve, if you were looking at artificial intelligence in 2025, what strikes you first? Steve Jobs: Hype. There’s an awful lot of it.
One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.
Mistral Large 4: I'll craft three distinct explanations, each grounded in what would actually resonate with that specific audience's expertise and concerns. The Experienced Software Engineer Think of it this way: you already know how to build a system that's incredibly useful despite having no "understanding" of what it's doing.
Qwen3.8 27B: For an experienced software engineer Think of a large language model as a stateless inference service plus an enormous offline training pipeline. At inference time, the model takes a prompt, converts it into tokens, and produces a probability distribution over the next token.
A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.
Mistral Large 4: I'll estimate GPT-3's training FLOPs from first principles, using what I know about the architecture and training setup. Step 1: Establish the Key Parameters From memory, GPT-3 175B has: Parameters (N): 175 billion (175 × 10⁹) Layers (L): 96 Model dimension (d_model): 12,288 Attention heads: 96 Context length: 2,048…
Qwen3.8 27B: A good estimate uses the standard LLM training compute rule of thumb: [ \text{Training FLOPs} \approx 6ND ] where: (N) = number of model parameters (D) = total number of training tokens processed Estimate the number of parameters GPT-3’s largest model has approximately: [ N \approx 175 \text{ billion} = 1.75 \times…
Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.
Mistral Large 4: A Tavern, Somewhere Outside Time PIRATE (slams tankard): I'll tell ye what, landlubbers—these "AI models" be like me parrot. Speaks yer words back at ye, but knows no treasure, no true north! KNIGHT (adjusting visor): Aye, yet it hath no honor. No chivalry. I challenged one to single combat—it merely... generated text.
Qwen3.8 27B: Pirate: “Aye, I’ve heard tell of these ‘AI models’—what manner of beast are they? Do they sink ships or hoard gold?” Knight: “Nay, sir. They are not beasts, but servants of knowledge. They learn from countless books and answer as if learned in the finest library.”
Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.
Mistral Large 4: INTERNAL INVESTMENT COMMITTEE MEMO To: Investment Committee From: [PM Name] Date: [Date] Re: LedgerLift, Inc. (LLLT) — New Position Initiation RECOMMENDATION LONG 12-Month Price Target Range: $52–$68 (base ~$60) Thesis: LedgerLift is a high-quality, mid-market spend management platform compounding at ~20% with…
Qwen3.8 27B: Fictional internal memo; not investment advice. Recommendation: Short (moderate conviction) 12-month PT range: $30–$44 Thesis: LLLT is a high-quality, cash-rich spend-management SaaS business, but at $46 it embeds a peer EBIT multiple that its 20% FY26E EBIT margin and conservative DCF do not support.
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Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Mistral Large 4 has the edge: bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $0.68/M tokens | $0.4/M tokens |
| Output price | $2.09/M tokens | $3/M tokens |
| Context window | 524K tokens | 262K tokens |
| Weights | — | Open |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | No |
| Released | Oct 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| At 10M a month | $6.80 | $4.00 |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 6 Oct 2026.
Mistral Large 4 is developed by Mistral AI while Qwen3.8 27B is developed by Qwen. Mistral Large 4 has a 524K token context window vs Qwen3.8 27B's 262K. You can compare their actual outputs across 54 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
It depends on your use case. Mistral Large 4 and Qwen3.8 27B each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 54 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.
Mistral Large 4 costs $0.68/M input tokens and Qwen3.8 27B costs $0.4/M input tokens. Qwen3.8 27B is $0.28/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.
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