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Mistral: Mistral Small 4 vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-06-18.
| Mistral: Mistral Small 4 | Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | mistralai | qwen |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 6.1 | 66.4 |
| Input Price | $0.15/M | $0.20/M |
| Output Price | $0.60/M | $1.56/M |
| Context Window | 262,144 | 262,144 |
| Max Output | - | 65,536 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 7.7 | 55.7 |
| ai_index_agentic | - | 90.1 |
| ai_index_coding | - | 57.5 |
Who wins by task?
| Task | Mistral: Mistral Small 4 | Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 132 | 160 |
| Code Review | 127 | 152 |
| Code Completion | 129 | 130 |
| Code Refactoring | 129 | 148 |
| Bug Fixing | 131 | 166 |
| Unit Test Generation | 122 | 143 |
| Code Documentation | 127 | 135 |
| Regex Writing | 120 | 132 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 118 | 135 |
| Frontend Component Design | 122 | 140 |
| Data Analysis | 125 | 162 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 128 | 141 |
| ETL Scripting | 123 | 141 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 143 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 129 | 133 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 128 | 138 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 128 | 138 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 130 | 146 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 124 | 130 |
| Blog Post Writing | 120 | 133 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →
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