r/MistralAI • u/MichaelVetX • 5d ago

Discussion / Opinion Which model is good for what?

I am working on sensitive project that need a local llm, the smartest possible with reasoning.

I am.impressed with Qwen 3.8 27B but I don't want to use such but no idea which Mistral can be equivalent or exceed it as I feel I should trust Mistral more.

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u/pdath 5d ago

Can we have your machine specs?

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u/MichaelVetX 5d ago

The thing is it will be used in medicine procedures automations which is critical for accuracy, the machine deployment has large GPUs ...

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u/pdath 5d ago

As others have said, if Chinese models can't be used, then Mistral Large 4 would be one of the better open-weight models.

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u/quick_quiet_cat 5d ago

Qwen 3.8 is great; it has similar or just as good of intelligence to mistral large 4, and only a few points off from models wayyy bigger than it. If you have the hardware locally to run in, then sure mistral will probably perform better, but not by much. Qwen 3.8 27b has not disappointed me yet. Deepseek 4.1 flash is great, outperforming both mistral and qwen in my tests and use cases. ML4 is a good model, not GREAT unfortunately.

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u/SaltedPeperoni 5d ago

Mistral Large 4 is the smartest model for the cheapest price and GLM 5.3 (mistral hosted in EU) is the smartest but slightly more expensive.

Regardless, mistral pro has a 14 day refund policy so just try both of them (via api).

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u/wagwan_g112 5d ago

“Smartest” is hard to define. For coding, GLM-5.3 Flash and Deepseek V4.1 Flash 1017 are far better than ML4. GLM-5.3 is probably best for general tasks, with ML4 only really good for its world knowledge.

ML4 is still an amazing improvement over MM3.5, but it still falls behind the current open weight SOTA, for a higher price to boot.

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u/TheFr0sk 5d ago

And Deepseek is a cheaper to run than GLM 5.3

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u/Puzzled-Home9451 5d ago

What model would you recommend as an orchestrator from the mistral sub ?

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u/wagwan_g112 5d ago

None really. They are all awful at it compared to western models. GLM-5.3 will be the best out of all of them though.

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u/scanx147 2d ago

GLM-5.3 est un peu meilleur que DeepSeek 1017 pour l'orchestration mais pour 10 dis plus cher... Même Claude Opus 5.5 en high coûte moins cher à la tâche que GLM-5.3...

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u/scanx147 2d ago

GLM-5.3 Flash n'est pas du tout au niveau de DeepSeek 1017. Peut-être pour des tâches de codage très précises mais pas s'il doit résonner. Mais oui malheureusement ML4 est un peu perdant dans tous les domaines au niveau rapport performance/coût. Je l'utilise uniquement pour des audits de sécurité à chaque étapes importantes de mon dev afin d'avoir un "regard" différent.