Model Comparison

Codestral-22B vs Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Comparing Codestral-22B and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

No common benchmarks found

Codestral-22B and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base don't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

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Mistral AI
Codestral-22B
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
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Model Size

Parameter count comparison

57.8B diff

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base has 57.8B more parameters than Codestral-22B, making it 260.4% larger.

Mistral AI
Codestral-22B
22.2Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base
80.0Bparameters
22.2B
Codestral-22B
80.0B
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

License

Usage and distribution terms

Codestral-22B is licensed under MNPL-0.1, while Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base uses Apache 2.0.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Codestral-22B

MNPL-0.1

Open weights

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Codestral-22B was released on 2024-05-29, while Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base was released on 2025-09-10.

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base is 16 months newer than Codestral-22B.

Codestral-22B

May 29, 2024

1.9 years ago

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Sep 10, 2025

7 months ago

1.3yr newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

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Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

Mistral AI
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Detailed Comparison

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Feature
Mistral AI
Codestral-22B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

FAQ

Common questions about Codestral-22B vs Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Codestral-22B (Mistral AI) and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base (Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team) each have strengths in different areas. Compare their benchmark scores, pricing, context windows, and capabilities above to determine which fits your needs.
Codestral-22B scores HumanEvalFIM-Average: 91.6%, HumanEval: 81.1%, MBPP: 78.2%, Spider: 63.5%, HumanEval-Average: 61.5%.
Key differences include licensing (MNPL-0.1 vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.
Codestral-22B is developed by Mistral AI and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.