Mistral's official instruct fine-tuned version of [Mixtral 8x22B](/models/mistralai/mixtral-8x22b). It uses 39B active parameters out of 141B, offering unparalleled cost efficiency for its size. Its strengths include: - strong math, coding,…
Model details →Mistral: Mixtral 8x22B Instruct vs Qwen: Qwen-Max
Qwen: Qwen-Max wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Qwen-Max, based on Qwen2.5, provides the best inference performance among [Qwen models](/qwen), especially for complex multi-step tasks. It's a large-scale MoE model that has been pretrained on over 20 trillion tokens and further post-train…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Mistral: Mixtral 8x22B Instruct | Qwen: Qwen-Max | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 66K | 33K | 🏆 Mistral: Mixtral 8x22B Instruct |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $2.00 | $1.04 | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen-Max |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $6.00 | $4.16 | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen-Max |
| 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: Mixtral 8x22B Instruct better than Qwen: Qwen-Max?
Qwen: Qwen-Max wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Mistral: Mixtral 8x22B Instruct and Qwen: Qwen-Max?
Input: $2.00 vs $1.04 per 1M tokens. Output: $6.00 vs $4.16 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Mistral: Mixtral 8x22B Instruct and Qwen: Qwen-Max support?
Mistral: Mixtral 8x22B Instruct supports up to 66K tokens. Qwen: Qwen-Max supports up to 33K tokens.
Do both Mistral: Mixtral 8x22B Instruct and Qwen: Qwen-Max support tool calling?
Mistral: Mixtral 8x22B Instruct: yes. Qwen: Qwen-Max: yes.