Mistral Large vs Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Plus
Head-to-head API pricing and cost comparison between Mistral’s Mistral Large and Qwen’s Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Plus. Prices auto-refresh daily from OpenRouter.
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Plus is 68% cheaper for input tokens; Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Plus also wins on output tokens.
Side-by-side comparison
| Spec | Mistral Large | Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Input price (per 1M) | $2.00 | $0.65 |
| Cached input (per 1M) | $0.20 | $0.13 |
| Output price (per 1M) | $6.00 | $3.25 |
| Batch input (per 1M) | — | — |
| Batch output (per 1M) | — | — |
| Reasoning price (per 1M) | — | — |
| Context window | 128K | 1000K |
| Vision support | No | No |
| Caching support | Yes | Yes |
| Batch API | No | No |
| Reasoning capability | No | No |
Monthly cost at volume
Estimated monthly API spend at common production traffic levels (input/output tokens per request shown).
| Volume | Mistral Large | Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Plus | Savings |
|---|---|---|---|
1K req/day 500in / 200out tokens | $66.00 | $29.25 | $36.75 Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Plus wins |
10K req/day 1500in / 500out tokens | $1,800 | $780.00 | $1,020 Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Plus wins |
100K req/day 3000in / 800out tokens | $32,400 | $13,650 | $18,750 Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Plus wins |
1M req/day 8000in / 2000out tokens | $840,000 | $351,000 | $489,000 Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Plus wins |
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Frequently asked questions
Which is cheaper, Mistral Large or Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Plus?
For input tokens, Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Plus is roughly 68% cheaper at $0.65/1M vs $2.00/1M. For output tokens, Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Plus wins at $3.25/1M. Real-world cost depends on your input/output ratio — use the calculator to model your actual workload.
What’s the context window difference?
Mistral Large has a context window of 128K tokens. Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Plus offers 1000K tokens. Larger context windows are valuable for long documents, RAG pipelines, and multi-turn conversations — but they come with higher input-token bills if you fill them every request.
Should I use Mistral Large or Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Plus?
Choose Mistral Large if you’re already on the Mistral stack, want broad ecosystem support, or prefer its feature set. Choose Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Plus for Qwen’s ecosystem, or its cheaper input tokens. Run a small benchmark on your own prompts before committing — price is only one axis.
How are these prices kept current?
Prices are pulled directly from OpenRouter’s public models API once every 24 hours via a Convex cron job, then normalized to per-1M-token figures. Last refresh: May 28, 2026.