Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506 is an updated 24B parameter model from Mistral optimized for instruction following, repetition reduction, and improved function calling. Compared to the 3.1 release, version 3.2 significantly improves acc…
Model details →Mistral: Mistral Small 3.2 24B vs Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Mistral: Mistral Small 3.2 24B wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) code generation model developed by the Qwen team. It is optimized for agentic coding tasks such as function calling, tool use, and long-context reasoning over...
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Mistral: Mistral Small 3.2 24B | Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 256K | 262K | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $0.09 | $0.30 | 🏆 Mistral: Mistral Small 3.2 24B |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $0.25 | $1.00 | 🏆 Mistral: Mistral Small 3.2 24B |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | Yes | — | 🏆 Mistral: Mistral Small 3.2 24B |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | — | — | Tie |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral: Mistral Small 3.2 24B better than Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B?
Mistral: Mistral Small 3.2 24B wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Mistral: Mistral Small 3.2 24B and Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B?
Input: $0.09 vs $0.30 per 1M tokens. Output: $0.25 vs $1.00 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Mistral: Mistral Small 3.2 24B and Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B support?
Mistral: Mistral Small 3.2 24B supports up to 256K tokens. Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B supports up to 262K tokens.
Do both Mistral: Mistral Small 3.2 24B and Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B support tool calling?
Mistral: Mistral Small 3.2 24B: yes. Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B: yes.