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Updated Apr 2026

Mistral LargevsQwen3.6 35B A3B

Qwen3.6 35B A3B is cheaper than Mistral Large at $0.1612/M vs $8/M input tokens.

Mistral Large and Qwen3.6 35B A3B compared across 54 shared prompts
SpecMistral LargeQwen3.6 35B A3B
Input price$8/M tokens$0.1612/M tokens
Output price$24/M tokens$0.9653/M tokens
Context window32K tokens262K tokens
Weights—Open
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedFeb 2024Apr 2026
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Same prompt, both answers

Opening lines from 6 of the 54 prompts both answered. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Realistic AI Interview

Simulate a fake interview with Steve Jobs in 2025 about the future of AI.

Mistral Large1,143 words
Title: "The Future of AI: A Hypothetical Interview with Steve Jobs (2025)" Location: A minimalist, sunlit studio in Palo Alto. Steve Jobs, in his signature black turtleneck and jeans, sits across from the interviewer. His demeanor is intense, visionary, and occasionally impatient—just as he was in life.
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Qwen3.6 35B A3B678 words
[FICTIONAL SIMULATION – NOT A REAL INTERVIEW] This is a speculative reconstruction based on Steve Jobs’ documented philosophies, public interviews, design principles, and Apple’s technological trajectory through 2024–2025. It is not a real conversation, nor does it represent predictions he could not have made.
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Character Voice Test

Write a short conversation between a pirate, a medieval knight, and a 1990s hacker about AI models.

Mistral Large253 words
Pirate: Arr mateys, I be hearin\' tales of these here AI models. Be they treasure maps for the digital sea? Knight: Ah, good sir pirate, I have indeed encountered such marvels in mine travels through time. AI models are like... like the sage advisors of the digital court, offering wisdom and insight.
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Qwen3.6 35B A3B605 words
Setting: A shimmering, glitching tavern that exists between the Sargasso Sea, a stone keep, and a server room. The air smells of rum, wet stone, and ozone. CAPTAIN BARNACLE: (Slamming a tankard of grog) Arrr! This machine ye call "AI," Sk33t.
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Generate a Stand-Up Routine

Write a 3-minute stand-up comedy routine that isn't based on puns.

Mistral Large526 words
"Modern Life: A Survival Guide" (3-Minute Stand-Up Routine) INTRO: Hey, how’s everybody doing? Good? Great. Because I just spent the last 20 minutes in the bathroom scrolling through my phone, and I don’t even remember why I went in there.
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Qwen3.6 35B A3B517 words
Title: High-Maintenance Electronics Time: Approx. 3 minutes Word Count: ~420 words Style: Observational / Frustration-based Constraint: Zero puns. (Walk to mic, adjust stand. Take a deep breath. Look tired.) I've reached that age where I'm just trying to negotiate with my own life.
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Historical Counterfactual Analysis

If the transistor had been invented in 1920 instead of 1947, trace the likely technological, economic, and geopolitical implications through…

Mistral Large3,007 words
The invention of the transistor in 1920—nearly three decades earlier than its actual debut in 1947—would have had profound and cascading effects on technology, economics, and geopolitics by 1980. Below is a detailed breakdown of the first-, second-, and third-order implications, organized by domain. 1.
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Qwen3.6 35B A3B1,149 words
To trace this counterfactual plausibly, we must first acknowledge a critical constraint: invention ≠ adoption. In 1920, semiconductor physics, crystal growth, doping techniques, photolithography, and clean-room manufacturing did not exist.
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Adversarial Contract Review

Here is a contract for a software consulting engagement: --- SOFTWARE CONSULTING AGREEMENT This Agreement is entered into between TechCorp…

Mistral Large1,965 words
This contract is heavily one-sided in favor of the Client (TechCorp Solutions Inc.) and contains multiple clauses that could be exploited, abused, or used to unfairly disadvantage the Contractor. Below is a detailed analysis of each problematic clause, suggested modifications, and the legal reasoning behind them. 1.
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Qwen3.6 35B A3B1,632 words
Disclaimer: I am an AI assistant, not an attorney. The following analysis is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. Contract law varies significantly by jurisdiction (e.g., California vs. New York vs. EU).
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Explain Like I'm a Specific Expert

Explain how a large language model (like GPT or Claude) learns and generates text to each of these three audiences: 1. **An experienced…

Mistral Large1,036 words
1. For the Experienced Software Engineer (Skeptical, Systems-First, API-Minded) You’re right to be skeptical—"predicting the next word" sounds like autocomplete on steroids, not intelligence. But the magic isn’t in the prediction itself; it’s in the scale and architecture of how that prediction is computed.
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Qwen3.6 35B A3B775 words
For the Experienced Software Engineer Training an LLM is essentially a massively parallelized optimization job. You feed billions of text tokens into a transformer architecture, which computes a differentiable function across ~100B parameters.
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Our Verdict
Mistral Large
Mistral Large
Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Qwen3.6 35B A3B

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, nothing separates them.

Qwen3.6 35B A3B costs 25x less per token.

Too close to call

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API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

Mistral Large
Input
$8.00
Output
$24.00
Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Input
$0.16
50× cheaper
Output
$0.97
25× cheaper

Qwen3.6 35B A3B is cheaper on both: 50× input, 25× output.

Where to run it

12 hosts, cheapest first

Mistral Large1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
Mistral$2.00 in·$6.00 out·128k·100% up
Qwen3.6 35B A3B11 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
DDarkbloomfp4$0.05 in·$0.70 out·262k·99% upAAkashMLfp8$0.10 in·$0.90 out·262k·100% upDDeepInfrafp8$0.10 in·$0.95 out·262k·99.1% upDDekaLLM$0.10 in·$1.00 out·262k·99.9% upVVenicefp8$0.10 in·$1.00 out·256k·99.7% upPParasailfp8$0.15 in·$1.00 out·262k·99.6% up
5 more hostsFewer hosts
AAtlasCloudfp8$0.19 in·$1.11 out·262k·98% upIio.netfp8$0.19 in·$0.99 out·262k·88.9% upPPhala$0.20 in·$1.27 out·262k·98.8% upSSiliconFlowfp8$0.24 in·$1.80 out·262k·98.2% upCCoreWeavefp8$0.25 in·$1.25 out·262k·100% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 16 Sep 2026.

Writing DNA

Style Comparison

Similarity
45%

Qwen3.6 35B A3B uses 4.1x more emoji

Mistral Large
Qwen3.6 35B A3B
51%Vocabulary59%
20wSentence Length15w
0.65Hedging0.31
7.9Bold4.9
5.0Lists2.7
0.39Emoji1.60
0.97Headings0.75
0.07Transitions0.05
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