Ministral 3 8B vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct

Ministral 3 8B vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct. A reliable intelligence-versus-cost verdict requires both models' intelligence scores and benchmark-run costs. Missing data is not a performance verdict.

MistralMinistral 3 8BOff the frontier
Intelligence
5.50
Total cost
$27.5
AlibabaQwen3 Next 80B A3B InstructNot ranked · benchmark data missing
Intelligence
9.60
Total cost
-
Verdict

Comparison incomplete

A reliable intelligence-versus-cost verdict requires both models' intelligence scores and benchmark-run costs. Missing data is not a performance verdict.

MetricMinistral 3 8BQwen3 Next 80B A3B InstructDifference
Intelligence (higher is better)5.59.6+74.5% Qwen3 Next 80B A3B In… is 74.5% more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)$27.47Not reported— not comparable
End-to-end time (lower is better)5.35s4.56s−14.8% Qwen3 Next 80B A3B In… is 14.8% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)$0.15 / $0.15$0.10 / $1.10
Input modalitiesText, ImageText
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