Qwen3-14B vs Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
14.8 B
Context
40,960
30d
10.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
mistralai · B · Open weights
Params
24.0 B
Context
—
30d
246 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-14B Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 14.8 B 24.0 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Mistral3ForConditionalGeneration
Context length 40,960 128,000
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 24
Downloads 30d 10,001,942 245,597
Downloads all time 38.7 M 4.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-03-11
API input price / 1M tokens $0.12 $0.35
API output price / 1M tokens $0.24 $0.56
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.36 $0.91
Cached input / 1M tokens — —
AA Intelligence Index 6.7 —
AA Coding Index — —
AA Agentic Index — —
Max output tokens 16,384 102,400
API providers 2 1
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes No

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Qwen3-14B $0.36
Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503 $0.91

Qwen3-14B is 2.5× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)

10.0 M246 K
Qwen3-14B Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Qwen3-14B · fp16 35.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503 · fp16 109.8 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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