Mistral Large 2 vs Qwen3.8 Flash: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Mistral Large 2 is developed by Mistral AI, while Qwen3.8 Flash comes from Alibaba. Mistral Large 2 was released in July 2024, and Qwen3.8 Flash followed 25 months later in August 2026. The two are similar in size, at about 123 billion and 125 billion parameters respectively.
We have 5 benchmark results for Mistral Large 2 and 22 benchmark results for Qwen3.8 Flash, but they were measured on different benchmarks, so there is no like-for-like scoreboard.
Qwen3.8 Flash is the cheaper API at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.47 per million output tokens, roughly 13 times cheaper than Mistral Large 2 at $2 and $6. Qwen3.8 Flash takes the larger context window at 1M tokens, compared with 128K for Mistral Large 2. Mistral Large 2 accepts text as input, while Qwen3.8 Flash accepts text, images, and video. On tooling, only Mistral Large 2 supports function calling and only Mistral Large 2 offers structured output.
| Characteristic | Mistral Large 2 | Qwen3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Mistral AI | Alibaba |
| Release Date | July 24, 2024 | August 26, 2026 |
| Parameters | 123B | 125B |
| Multimodal | No | Yes |
| Context (input) | 128K | 1.0M |
| Context (output) | 128K | 131K |
| Input Price / 1M | $2.00 | $0.15 |
| Output Price / 1M | $6.00 | $0.47 |
| Average Score | 87.6% | 68.5% |
Verdict
Qwen3.8 Flash leads in 3 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Mistral Large 2 — 0.9, Qwen3.8 Flash — 0.7.
Qwen3.8 Flash is 12.9x cheaper: input $0.15/1M vs $2.00/1M tokens.
Qwen3.8 Flash supports a larger context: 1M vs 128K tokens.
Qwen3.8 Flash is newer: released 8/26/2026 vs 7/24/2024.
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