Ministral 3 14B vs Qwen3.7 Max

Which is better for the money: Ministral 3 14B by Mistral or Qwen3.7 Max by Alibaba? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-26.

Trade-off

MistralMinistral 3 14BOff the frontier

Intelligence: 6.00
Total cost: $37.6

AlibabaQwen3.7 MaxOff the frontier

Intelligence: 29.50
Total cost: $1965

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Qwen3.7 Max scores 23.5 points higher (29.5 vs 6.0) but costs 52× as much to run the benchmark ($1965 vs $37.6; premium vs budget cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick Qwen3.7 Max when you need intelligence above 6.0, and Ministral 3 14B when 6.0 is enough.

Metric	Ministral 3 14B	Qwen3.7 Max	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	6.0	29.5	+391.7% Qwen3.7 Max is 4.9× more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$37.56	$1,964.83	+5131.2% Qwen3.7 Max is 52× more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	7.92s	16.58s	+109.3% Qwen3.7 Max is 109.3% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.20 / $0.20	$2.50 / $7.50
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Qwen3.7 Max vs Ministral 3 14B: 391.7% more intelligence, 5131.2% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 109.3% slower end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Ministral 3 14B is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Medium) scores 29.90 for $31.2.
Qwen3.7 Max is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) scores 51.80 for $1082.

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