Qwen3 Next 80B vs Mistral Large 3

Alibaba (Qwen) against Mistral AI, costed on the same three workloads. Qwen3 Next 80B is cheaper on all three workloads.

Monthly bill, side by side

WorkloadQwen3 Next 80BMistral Large 3Difference
Support chatbot
2,500 six-turn conversations a day
$786 $1,609 $822 (2×)
Document summariser
1,000 single-shot summaries a day
$83.70 $219 $135 (2.6×)
Coding agent
200 twelve-turn sessions a day
$502 $1,224 $722 (2.4×)

No prompt caching and no batch discount on either side, so the comparison is like for like. Both figures assume 30 days a month.

The rate cards

Qwen3 Next 80BMistral Large 3
Input, per 1M tokens$0.15$0.5
Output, per 1M tokens$1.2$1.5
Cached inputnot publishednot published
Context window262K262K
Maximum output66K262K
Reasoning modelyesno
Visionnoyes

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