Qwen3-Coder-Next vs Mistral Medium 3.1

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
9.2
proprietary · 131.1K context

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-Coder-Next Mistral Medium 3.1
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 9.2
AA Coding Index 36.2 20.5
AA Agentic Index 0.9 1.9
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 3.1 $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
❌ Won’t fit

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