Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct is an upgraded variant of Mistral Small 3 (2501), featuring 24 billion parameters with advanced multimodal capabilities. It provides state-of-the-art performance in text-based reasoning and vision tasks, inclu…
Model details →Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B vs Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct
Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct is a multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding for images and videos. Its Instruct variant optimizes instruction-following for general multimodal tasks. It excels in perception …
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B | Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B 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. | $0.03 | $0.13 | 🏆 Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $0.11 | $0.52 | 🏆 Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | — | Yes | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | — | — | Tie |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B better than Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct?
Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B and Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct?
Input: $0.03 vs $0.13 per 1M tokens. Output: $0.11 vs $0.52 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B and Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct support?
Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B supports up to 131K tokens. Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct supports up to 131K tokens.
Do both Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B and Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct support tool calling?
Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B: not advertised. Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct: yes.