Mistral Medium 3.1 vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct is 1.3× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct accepts longer prompts: 262K vs 131K tokens.
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct output costs $0.88 per 1M via DeepInfra, against the list price of $1.90.
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct is the newer model (released 2025-09-23).
| Mistral Medium 3.1 | Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Mistral | Qwen |
| Released | 2025-08-13 | 2025-09-23 |
| Input / 1M | $0.40 | $0.21 |
| Output / 1M | $2.00 | $1.90 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.04 | $0.10 |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.80 | $0.632 |
| Context | 131K | 262K |
| Max output | 105K | 33K |
| Accepts | text, image, file | text, image |
| Reasoning | No | No |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 3 | 3 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $2.00 | $0.88 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | Operational | Operational |
Cost calculator
Mistral Medium 3.1
$54.00 per month$1.80 per day
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
$41.10 per month$1.37 per day
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct saves $12.90 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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