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Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B vs Mistral: Mistral Small 4

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-06-22.

Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B Mistral: Mistral Small 4
Vendorqwenmistralai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score51.86.1
Input Price$0.14/M$0.15/M
Output Price$1.00/M$0.60/M
Context Window262,144262,144
Max Output262,144-
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index52.27.7
ai_index_agentic35.3-
ai_index_coding69.1-

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3BMistral: Mistral Small 4
SQL Generation 154 132
Code Review 147 127
Code Completion 130 129
Code Refactoring 144 129
Bug Fixing 156 131
Unit Test Generation 140 122
Code Documentation 133 127
Regex Writing 129 120
CI/CD Pipelines 132 118
Frontend Component Design 137 122
Data Analysis 151 125
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 141 128
ETL Scripting 138 123
JSON Extraction 143 131
Bulk Data Labeling 133 129
OCR / Document Parsing 138 128
Table Extraction from PDFs 138 128
Long-Document Summarization 142 130
Short-Form Summarization 128 124
Blog Post Writing 130 120

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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