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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 2026-06-18.

Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B Mistral: Mistral Small 4
Vendorqwenmistralai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score67.96.1
Input Price$0.15/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_index54.47.7
ai_index_agentic96.3-
ai_index_coding58.0-

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3BMistral: Mistral Small 4
SQL Generation 161 132
Code Review 152 127
Code Completion 130 129
Code Refactoring 148 129
Bug Fixing 168 131
Unit Test Generation 143 122
Code Documentation 135 127
Regex Writing 133 120
CI/CD Pipelines 135 118
Frontend Component Design 140 122
Data Analysis 163 125
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 142 128
ETL Scripting 142 123
JSON Extraction 143 131
Bulk Data Labeling 133 129
OCR / Document Parsing 138 128
Table Extraction from PDFs 138 128
Long-Document Summarization 146 130
Short-Form Summarization 130 124
Blog Post Writing 133 120

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

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