Magistral Small 2506 vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

Compare Magistral Small 2506 from Mistral AI and Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the OpenRouter API.

Magistral Small 2506 vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: side-by-side summary

Magistral Small 2506 and Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct are available through the OpenRouter API, so switching between them takes a model slug change rather than a new integration.

Magistral Small 2506, from Mistral AI, has a 40,000-token context window and is priced by the provider serving it on OpenRouter.

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct, from Qwen, has a 262,144-token context window and is priced at $0.20/M tokens input, $0.88/M tokens output on OpenRouter.

Context window

Magistral Small 2506: 40,000 tokens
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: 262,144 tokens

Price

Magistral Small 2506: Pricing varies by provider
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: $0.20/M tokens input, $0.88/M tokens output

Provided by

Magistral Small 2506: Mistral AI
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: Qwen

Magistral Small 2506 vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct at a glance

Magistral Small 2506 vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct comparison
	Magistral Small 2506	Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
Input price	Pricing varies by provider	$0.20/M tokens
Output price	Pricing varies by provider	$0.88/M tokens
Context window	40,000 tokens	262,144 tokens
Intelligence Index	8.2	9.9
Coding Index	Not available	Not available
Agentic Index	Not available	Not available
Latency (p50)	Not available	1.77 s
Throughput (p50)	Not available	9.0 tok/s

Oct 5, 2026

Which has the longer context window, Magistral Small 2506 or Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct has the longer context window at 262,144 tokens, compared with 40,000 tokens for Magistral Small 2506.

Magistral Small 2506 vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

Magistral Small 2506 vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

Overview