Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 vs Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503

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

nvidia · A · Open weights
Params
18.7 B
Context
—
30d
4.1 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 Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503
Deployment Open weights Open weights · also via API
Parameters 18.7 B 24.0 B
Architecture Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration Mistral3ForConditionalGeneration
Context length — 128,000
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 24
Downloads 30d 4,142,396 245,597
Downloads all time 39.6 M 4.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-05-27 2025-03-11
API input price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.35
API output price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.56
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens not on OpenRouter $0.91
Cached input / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter —
AA Intelligence Index not on OpenRouter —
AA Coding Index not on OpenRouter —
AA Agentic Index not on OpenRouter —
Max output tokens not on OpenRouter 102,400
API providers not on OpenRouter 1
Tool calling not on OpenRouter Yes
Reasoning mode not on OpenRouter No

API cost

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

Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503 $0.91

Download trend

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

12.6 M246 K
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 · fp16 29.1 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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