Model comparison

Devstral Small 2505 vs QwQ-32B

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 34.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Devstral Small 2505 Mistral AI

34.3

Rank #233 Reported

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.8

Rank #159 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where QwQ-32B leads 23.7 to 19.7.

Side by side

Devstral Small 2505 and QwQ-32B specifications
Devstral Small 2505QwQ-32B
ProviderMistral AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index34.339.8
Released2025-05-072024-11-28
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.10—
Output $ / M tokens$0.30—
Results tracked436

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Category by category

Coding Devstral Small 2505 leads

Devstral Small 2505: 38.9 (#166), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDevstral Small 2505QwQ-32B
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)56.4%—
Aider Polyglot—20.9%
SciCode28.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—44.6%
LiveBench Coding—72.2%
LMArena Coding—1333
BigCodeBench Complete—54.4%

Reasoning QwQ-32B leads

Devstral Small 2505: 19.7 (#252), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDevstral Small 2505QwQ-32B
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.7%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles—5%
LiveBench Reasoning—83.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1325
LiveBench Data Analysis—65%
Epoch Capabilities Index—137.6
ForecastBench—58.3
LiveBench—72%

Math Not comparable

Devstral Small 2505: —, QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDevstral Small 2505QwQ-32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—59.2%
LiveBench Math—77.8%
LMArena Math—1359

Knowledge Not comparable

Devstral Small 2505: —, QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDevstral Small 2505QwQ-32B
GPQA Diamond—65.3%
Confabulations—15.6%
LMArena Expert—1324

Multilingual Not comparable

Devstral Small 2505: —, QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDevstral Small 2505QwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English—1305
LMArena Chinese—1378
LMArena French—1336
LMArena German—1313
LMArena Japanese—1262
LMArena Korean—1279
LMArena Russian—1297
LMArena Spanish—1354

Instruction Following Not comparable

Devstral Small 2505: —, QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDevstral Small 2505QwQ-32B
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.8%
LMArena Instruction Following—1297

Long Context Not comparable

Devstral Small 2505: —, QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDevstral Small 2505QwQ-32B
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%
LMArena Longer Query—1308

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Devstral Small 2505: —, QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDevstral Small 2505QwQ-32B
LMArena Text—1329
LMArena Creative Writing—1288
Short-Story Creative Writing—80.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1257
LMArena Multi-Turn—1314
LiveBench Language—51.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Devstral Small 2505 better than QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 34.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Devstral Small 2505 or QwQ-32B better for coding?

Devstral Small 2505 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.9 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Devstral Small 2505 and QwQ-32B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Devstral Small 2505 has 4 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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