Question 1

Which is cheaper, Mistral Large or Qwen 2.5 Max?

Accepted Answer

Qwen 2.5 Max is cheaper for both input ($0.16/M tokens) and output ($0.64/M tokens), compared to Mistral Large at $2.00/$6.00 per million tokens.

Question 2

Which is faster, Mistral Large or Qwen 2.5 Max?

Accepted Answer

Qwen 2.5 Max is faster at 80 tokens/sec with a TTFT of 240ms, compared to Mistral Large at 75 tokens/sec and 280ms TTFT.

Question 3

Which has a bigger context window, Mistral Large or Qwen 2.5 Max?

Accepted Answer

Mistral Large has a 128K token context window, which is equal to Qwen 2.5 Max's 128K context window.

Question 4

Which is better for coding, Mistral Large or Qwen 2.5 Max?

Accepted Answer

Qwen 2.5 Max has a higher coding ELO of 1250 compared to Mistral Large's 1240, making it the stronger choice for code generation and programming tasks.

Feature	Mistral Large	Qwen 2.5 Max
Provider	Mistral	Alibaba
Input Price / 1M tokens	$0.500	$0.160
Output Price / 1M tokens	$1.50	$0.640
Context Window	128K	128K
Max Output Tokens	8,192	8,192
Arena ELO	1,245	1,260
Coding ELO	1,240	1,250
TTFT (ms)	280	240
Tokens/sec	75	80
Multimodal	No	No
JSON Mode	Yes	Yes
Function Calling	Yes	Yes
Vision	No	No

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