Qwen3-Coder-Next vs Mistral Medium 3
API pricing, benchmark indices and specs — updated 19 October 2026.
Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
79.7 B
Context
262,144
30d
511 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
mistralai · B · API-only
Input / 1M
$0.40
Output / 1M
$2.00
AA index
9
proprietary · 131.1K context
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-Coder-Next | Mistral Medium 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | API-only (closed weights) |
| Parameters | 79.7 B | n/a — API-only |
| Architecture | Qwen3NextForCausalLM | n/a — API-only |
| Context length | 262,144 | 131,072 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | Proprietary |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Per API terms |
| Languages | — | n/a — API-only |
| Downloads 30d | 510,951 | n/a — API-only |
| Downloads all time | 7.3 M | n/a — API-only |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | n/a — API-only |
| Gated | No | n/a — API-only |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-01-30 | n/a — API-only |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.12 | $0.40 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $0.80 | $2.00 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $0.92 | $2.40 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.07 | $0.04 |
| AA Intelligence Index | 9.2 | 9 |
| AA Coding Index | 36.2 | — |
| AA Agentic Index | 0.9 | — |
| Max output tokens | 235,929 | 104,857 |
| API providers | 1 | 1 |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | No | No |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
Qwen3-Coder-Next
$0.92
Mistral Medium 3
$2.40
Qwen3-Coder-Next is 2.6× cheaper at list price.
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-Coder-Next · fp16 @ 256K ctx
558.2 GB / 24 GB