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Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 vs Qwen3.8 Flash

Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 has the stronger public benchmark scores. Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 costs 68% less for the same work.

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

Qwen3.8 Flash

by Qwen

Coming soon · price at launch
Context
1M
Input / 1M
$0.11
Output / 1M
$0.38

Better overall

Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501

Grade 20.1 vs —

Cheaper

Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501

68% less, $0.058 vs $0.18 blended

Larger context

Qwen3.8 Flash

32K vs 1M 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 2501Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501: 1,274
Qwen3.8 FlashQwen3.8 Flash: —
LMArena CodingElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 15, 2026
Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501: 1,312
Qwen3.8 FlashQwen3.8 Flash: —
SWE-Bench Pro% of tasks resolved · Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro · Aug 24, 2026 · reference
Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501: —

Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501Qwen3.8 Flashv = 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.

Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501$13.20 /month
Qwen3.8 Flash$37.88 /month

Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 saves you $24.68 a month at this usage, $296 a year.

At a glance

AttributeMistral Small 24B Instruct 2501Qwen3.8 Flash
Made byMistral AIQwen
AvailabilityComing soonComing soon
Overall gradeGood · 20.1Not rated
Overall rank#65 of 67Not ranked
Input price$0.050 per 1M$0.11 per 1M
Output price$0.080 per 1M$0.38 per 1M
Context window32,768 tokens1,000,000 tokens
Reasoning levelsNoYes
Reads imagesNoNo
Model IDmistral-small-24b-instruct-2501qwen3.8-flash

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": "qwen3.8-flash", "messages": [...]}'

Questions

Is Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 or Qwen3.8 Flash 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 Qwen3.8 Flash?

Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501: $0.050 in and $0.080 out per million tokens, against $0.11 and $0.38 through FullsendAI.

Which has the larger context window?

Qwen3.8 Flash, with 1,000,000 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), Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro, and model makers’ published results where marked v. Prices are FullsendAI’s, per million tokens. Data as of Oct 28, 2026.