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 VL 8B Instruct
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct is a multimodal vision-language model from the Qwen3-VL series, built for high-fidelity understanding and reasoning across text, images, and video. It features improved multimodal fusion with Interleaved-MRoPE for long-…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1 | Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 131K | 131K | Tie |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $0.10 | $0.08 | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $0.30 | $0.50 | 🏆 Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1 |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | — | Yes | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | — | — | Tie |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1 better than Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct?
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct wins on 2 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 VL 8B Instruct?
Input: $0.10 vs $0.08 per 1M tokens. Output: $0.30 vs $0.50 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1 and Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct support?
Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1 supports up to 131K tokens. Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct supports up to 131K tokens.
Do both Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1 and Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct support tool calling?
Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1: yes. Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct: yes.