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Qwen 3 Max vs Mistral X-Large

Qwen vs Mistral. Specs, benchmarks, and real per-task cost — all in one page.

Verdict

Mistral X-Large leads on LMSYS ELO (1318 vs 1295). Qwen 3 Max is ~1.1× cheaper on a 3:1 input:output blend.

Qwen

Alibaba’s flagship. Strongest non-English coverage of any open model; dominant in Asian markets.

MultilingualOpen weightsCompetitive coding

Mistral

European frontier model. EU-hosted inference, strong European language coverage, Apache-licensed weights.

EU data residencyMultilingual strengthOpen license

Pricing

Input / 1M$1.60$2.00

Output / 1M$6.40$6.00

Context128K256K

Max output16K16K

LicenseOpen weightsOpen weights

Released2025-11-202026-01-28

Benchmarks

LMSYS ELO1295.01318.0

MMLU Pro84.083.5

HumanEval87.288.0

MATH85.178.2

MMMU71.8—

IFEval85.586.5

Per-task cost

Summarize a 1-hour meeting transcript$0.027$0.033

Review a 500-line pull request$0.026$0.028

Answer a customer support ticket$0.0099$0.011

Extract structured data from a resume$0.014$0.016

Debug a stack trace with context$0.022$0.024

Per-call cost using published token counts for each task. Real-world prompts vary.

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