Model comparison
Codestral vs Qwen3.5 Max Preview
Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in coding, where Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads 44.0 to 27.3.
Side by side
| Codestral | Qwen3.5 Max Preview | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.6 | 45.3 |
| Released | 2024-05-29 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 256K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.30 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.90 | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Codestral: 27.3 (#321), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 44.0 (#77)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 11.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 41.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1487 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 52.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 137.78 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 73.8% | — |
| MBPP+ | 61.9% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Codestral: 19.8 (#251), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 30.8 (#84)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 32.5% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1483 |
Math Not comparable
Codestral: —, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 40.1 (#94)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1474 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codestral: —, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 41.8 (#107)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1489 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Codestral: —, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 56.2 (#22)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1465 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1534 |
| LMArena French | — | 1484 |
| LMArena German | — | 1487 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1495 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1438 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1471 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1470 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Codestral: —, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 77.0 (#31)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1467 |
Long Context Not comparable
Codestral: —, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 45.2 (#45)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1476 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Codestral: —, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 66.0 (#41)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1470 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1464 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1478 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codestral better than Qwen3.5 Max Preview?
Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.
Is Codestral or Qwen3.5 Max Preview better for coding?
Qwen3.5 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 27.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Codestral and Qwen3.5 Max Preview share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codestral has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Max Preview has 17.