Side-by-side comparison of Codestral 22B (Mistral AI · France) and QwQ-32B (Alibaba · China) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Codestral 22B is rated conditional; QwQ-32B is conditional. They part ways on licence: Codestral 22B is "MNPL (non-prod)", QwQ-32B is "Apache 2.0".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional EU code model trained on 80+ languages. Licensed under Mistral Non-Production License — blocked for any production or commercial deployment without a paid commercial licence. Use Codestral Mamba (Apache 2.0) if you need commercial freedom. | Conditional 32B dense reasoning model under Apache 2.0. Sweet spot for self-hostable reasoning: 4090-class GPU at 4-bit, single H100 at bf16. Chinese-origin caveats unchanged. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-04-15 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | MNPL (non-prod) | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Paid licence req. | Yes |
| Training data | Partial | Undisclosed |
| Origin | EU | China |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | — | 20/100 |
| Speed | — | 33 tok/s |
| Blended price | — | $0.74/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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