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Qwen: Qwen3.6 Flash vs Mistral: Mistral Small 4

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

Qwen: Qwen3.6 Flash Mistral: Mistral Small 4
Vendorqwenmistralai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-3.8
Input Price$0.19/M$0.15/M
Output Price$1.12/M$0.60/M
Context Window1,000,000262,144
Max Output65,536209,715
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index-9.6

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.6 FlashMistral: Mistral Small 4
SQL Generation 133 132
Code Review 132 128
Code Completion 131 129
Code Refactoring 136 129
Bug Fixing 136 132
Unit Test Generation 124 122
Code Documentation 131 127
Regex Writing 119 120
CI/CD Pipelines 120 118
Frontend Component Design 122 123
Data Analysis 124 125
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 128
ETL Scripting 128 123
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 129
OCR / Document Parsing 131 128
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 128
Long-Document Summarization 137 131
Short-Form Summarization 123 124
Blog Post Writing 121 120

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

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