Model comparison
Codestral vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
Codestral and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.6 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Codestral scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct in 1 category, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
- Codestral is cheaper at $0.30 / $0.90 per million input/output tokens, against $2.80 / $8.40 for Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct.
- Codestral accepts more context: 256K tokens versus 131K.
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Codestral | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.6 | 29.9 |
| Released | 2024-05-29 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 256K | 131K |
| Max output | 8K | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.30 | $2.80 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.90 | $8.40 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Codestral: 27.3 (#321), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Codestral | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 11.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 41.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 52.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 137.78 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 73.8% | — |
| MBPP+ | 61.9% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Codestral: —, Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 18.6 (#144)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OSWorld | — | 5% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Codestral: 19.8 (#251), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 20.7 (#233)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 32.5% | 36% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Codestral: —, Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 33.5 (#97)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1107 |
| Video-MME | — | 73.5% |
| GeoBench | — | 62% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 33.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codestral better than Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?
Codestral and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.6 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Codestral or Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?
Codestral is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $0.90 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct lists at $2.80 and $8.40.
Which has the bigger context window?
Codestral does, with 256K tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do Codestral and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Codestral has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has 6.