Model comparison

Pixtral Large vs Qwen3.6 35B-A3B

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.2 to 31.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 0 shared benchmarks.

Pixtral Large

Mistral AI

31.7

Rank #257 Reported

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B

Alibaba (Qwen)

37.2

Rank #194 Confirmed

Summary

The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads 27.2 to 20.9.
Qwen3.6 35B-A3B is cheaper at $0.25 / $1.49 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Pixtral Large.
Qwen3.6 35B-A3B accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Pixtral Large and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B specifications
	Pixtral Large	Qwen3.6 35B-A3B
Provider	Mistral AI	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	31.7	37.2
Released	2024-11-01	2026-04-01
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	128K	262K
Max output	128K	66K
Input $ / M tokens	$2	$0.25
Output $ / M tokens	$6	$1.49
Results tracked	3	14

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Pixtral Large: —, Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 36.7 (#190)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Pixtral Large	Qwen3.6 35B-A3B
SciCode	—	35.8%
WeirdML	—	34.5%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Pixtral Large: —, Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 21.9 (#126)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Pixtral Large	Qwen3.6 35B-A3B
Terminal-Bench	—	23%

Reasoning Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads

Pixtral Large: 20.9 (#208), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 27.2 (#112)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Pixtral Large	Qwen3.6 35B-A3B
NYT Connections (extended)	—	41.6%
CritPt	—	0.3%
Chess Puzzles	—	26%
EnigmaEval	0.8%	—
Mystery Game Puzzles	—	22%
DTBench	—	73.9%
LMCA	—	29.7%
Surface Evolver Bench	—	44.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index	—	143.92

Math Not comparable

Pixtral Large: —, Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 37.9 (#90)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Pixtral Large	Qwen3.6 35B-A3B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)	—	20.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	86.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Pixtral Large: —, Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 51.4 (#63)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Pixtral Large	Qwen3.6 35B-A3B
GPQA Diamond	—	84.8%

Multimodal Not comparable

Pixtral Large: 30.0 (#105), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Pixtral Large	Qwen3.6 35B-A3B
LMArena Vision	1089	—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Pixtral Large: 32.9 (#273), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Pixtral Large	Qwen3.6 35B-A3B
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	988	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Pixtral Large better than Qwen3.6 35B-A3B?

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.2 to 31.7 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Pixtral Large or Qwen3.6 35B-A3B?

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $1.49 per million output tokens; Pixtral Large lists at $2 and $6.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B does, with 262K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Pixtral Large and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Pixtral Large has 3 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B has 14.