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llama vs mistral vs qwen on Hacker News

Across 2007–2026 of Hacker News, llama leads llama vs mistral vs qwen with 19,258 mentions to qwen’s 6,585, peaking in Mar 2023.

Mention-over-time for llama vs mistral vs qwen, overlaid across 2007–2026 of Hacker News. Each line is a live date-histogram over ~45M posts and comments, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

llama19,258 mentions, peak Mar 2023mistral6,062 mentions, peak Nov 2023qwen6,585 mentions, peak Aug 2026
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How the lead changed hands

Open-weight LLMs, release by release: Llama opens the floodgates in early 2023, Mistral's European challenger surges late 2023, then Qwen carries the open-model crown into 2026.

The stories behind each line

Top llama stories
  1. Meta Llama 3 2,199 points · 2024
  2. LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs 1,372 points · 2024
  3. The Llama 4 herd 1,235 points · 2025
  4. Llama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable models 924 points · 2024
Top mistral stories
  1. Mistral OCR 1,756 points · 2025
  2. Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI 941 points · 2025
  3. Mistral 3 family of models released 826 points · 2025
  4. Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML 802 points · 2025
Top qwen stories
  1. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 665 points · 2026
  2. Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering 544 points · 2025
  3. Show HN: AutoThink – Boosts local LLM performance with adaptive reasoning 397 points · 2025
  4. I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes 367 points · 2026

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