Side-by-side comparison of Mistral Small (Mistral AI · France) and Qwen 3.5 (Alibaba · China) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Mistral Small is rated EU-ready; Qwen 3.5 is conditional. They part ways on training data: Mistral Small is "Partial", Qwen 3.5 is "Undisclosed".
| Field | ||
|---|---|---|
| Summary | ||
| Verdict | EU-ready Best-in-class permissive licence from an EU vendor. Apache 2.0 means no usage caps, no royalty, no revocation risk. | Conditional Hybrid Gated-DeltaNet + MoE flagship (397B total, 17B active) under Apache 2.0. Native vision, 201 languages, 262K context (1M with YaRN). Licence is clean; Chinese-origin alignment and supply-chain considerations persist. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-04-15 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Yes | Yes |
| Training data | Partial | Undisclosed |
| Origin | EU | China |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 13/100 | 40/100 |
| Speed | 152 tok/s | 53 tok/s |
| Blended price | $0.15/M | $1.35/M |
| Context window | — | — |
| Evidence | ||
| Sources | ||
No overlapping sources between the two entries.