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Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B vs Mistral: Mistral Small 4

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-06-20.

Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B Mistral: Mistral Small 4
Vendorqwenmistralai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score65.66.1
Input Price$0.29/M$0.15/M
Output Price$3.17/M$0.60/M
Context Window262,144262,144
Max Output262,140-
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index61.17.7
ai_index_agentic44.6-
ai_index_coding88.6-

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.6 27BMistral: Mistral Small 4
SQL Generation 159 132
Code Review 152 127
Code Completion 129 129
Code Refactoring 148 129
Bug Fixing 162 131
Unit Test Generation 144 122
Code Documentation 134 127
Regex Writing 131 120
CI/CD Pipelines 135 118
Frontend Component Design 140 122
Data Analysis 158 125
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 145 128
ETL Scripting 142 123
JSON Extraction 145 131
Bulk Data Labeling 133 129
OCR / Document Parsing 141 128
Table Extraction from PDFs 141 128
Long-Document Summarization 145 130
Short-Form Summarization 129 124
Blog Post Writing 132 120

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

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