Devstral Small 1.1 is a 24B parameter open-weight language model for software engineering agents, developed by Mistral AI in collaboration with All Hands AI. Finetuned from Mistral Small 3.1 and released under the Apache 2.0 license, it fea…
Model details →Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1 vs Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct is a 30.5B parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 128 experts (8 active per forward pass), designed for advanced code generation, repository-scale understanding, and agentic tool use. Built on the Qwen3 a…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1 | Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 131K | 160K | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $0.10 | $0.07 | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $0.30 | $0.27 | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | — | — | Tie |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | — | — | Tie |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1 better than Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct?
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1 and Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct?
Input: $0.10 vs $0.07 per 1M tokens. Output: $0.30 vs $0.27 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1 and Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct support?
Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1 supports up to 131K tokens. Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct supports up to 160K tokens.
Do both Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1 and Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct support tool calling?
Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1: yes. Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct: yes.