Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 vs Qwen3.6 27B

Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 has the stronger public benchmark scores. Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 costs 94% less for the same work.

Model A

Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501

by Mistral AI · #65 of 67 overall

Coming soon · price at launch

Context: 32K
Input / 1M: $0.050
Output / 1M: $0.080

Model B

Qwen3.6 27B

by Qwen

Coming soon · price at launch

Context: 256K
Input / 1M: $0.32
Output / 1M: $3.20

Better overall

Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501

Grade 20.1 vs —

Cheaper

Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501

94% less, $0.058 vs $1.04 blended

Larger context

Qwen3.6 27B

32K vs 256K tokens

Head to head

Public benchmarks. Longer is better; each value links to its source.

LMArena TextElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 15, 2026

Mistral Small 24B Instruct 25011,274

Qwen3.6 27B—

LMArena CodingElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 15, 2026

Mistral Small 24B Instruct 25011,312

Qwen3.6 27B—

SWE-bench Verified% of issues resolved · SWE-bench · Apr 21, 2026 · reference

Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501—

Qwen3.6 27B77.2%^v

SWE-Bench Pro% of tasks resolved · Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro · Apr 21, 2026 · reference

Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501—

Qwen3.6 27B53.5%^v

Terminal-Bench 2.1% of tasks passed · Terminal-Bench · Aug 5, 2026 · reference

Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501—

Qwen3.6 27B63.4%^v

Terminal-Bench 2.0% of tasks passed · Terminal-Bench · Apr 21, 2026 · reference

Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501—

Qwen3.6 27B59.3%^v

LiveCodeBenchpass@1, % · LiveCodeBench · Apr 21, 2026 · reference

Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501—

Qwen3.6 27B83.9%^v

Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501Qwen3.6 27Bv = reported by the model’s maker. — = no public score yet. Arena bars span the range across every model we grade.

What it costs you

Drag to match your monthly usage.

Input tokens a month200MOutput tokens a month40M

Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501$13.20 /month

Qwen3.6 27B$192 /month

Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 saves you $179 a month at this usage, $2,146 a year.

At a glance

Attribute	Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501	Qwen3.6 27B
Made by	Mistral AI	Qwen
Availability	Coming soon	Coming soon
Overall grade	Good · 20.1	Not rated
Overall rank	#65 of 67	Not ranked
Input price	$0.050 per 1M	$0.32 per 1M
Output price	$0.080 per 1M	$3.20 per 1M
Context window	32,768 tokens	262,144 tokens
Reasoning levels	No	Yes
Reads images	No	Yes
Model ID	mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501	qwen3.6-27b

Try both with one key

Same endpoint, same key, both hosted in the USA. Change one word to switch models, in Claude Code, Cursor, Cline or your own code.

Get your API key

# Ask either model the same thing
curl https://fullsendai.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FULLSEND_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"model": "mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501", "messages": [...]}'

# …then swap one word
  -d '{"model": "qwen3.6-27b", "messages": [...]}'

Questions

Is Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 or Qwen3.6 27B better?

One of them doesn’t have enough public benchmark scores to be graded yet; compare the benchmarks both have above.

Which is cheaper, Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 or Qwen3.6 27B?

Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501: $0.050 in and $0.080 out per million tokens, against $0.32 and $3.20 through FullsendAI.

Which has the larger context window?

Qwen3.6 27B, with 262,144 tokens.

Can I use both with one API key?

Yes, once they launch: both are coming soon, at the prices shown, and both will use the same FullsendAI key.

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Scores: LMArena (CC BY 4.0), SWE-bench, Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro, Terminal-Bench, LiveCodeBench, and model makers’ published results where marked v. Prices are FullsendAI’s, per million tokens. Data as of Oct 28, 2026.