Model comparison
Ministral 3B vs Qwen2.5-Max
Qwen2.5-Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.1 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Ministral 3B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen2.5-Max in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen2.5-Max leads 34.8 to 10.4.
- Ministral 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Ministral 3B | Qwen2.5-Max | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 25.6 | 40.1 |
| Released | 2024-10-01 | 2025-01-25 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 128K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.04 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.04 | — |
| Results tracked | 6 | 27 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Ministral 3B: —, Qwen2.5-Max: 41.2 (#118)
| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | — | 64.4% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1359 |
Reasoning Qwen2.5-Max leads
Ministral 3B: 17.7 (#278), Qwen2.5-Max: 24.6 (#144)
| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.08 | 132.54 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 51.4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1360 |
| DTBench | 51.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 67.9% |
| LMCA | 5.5% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 62.3% |
Math Qwen2.5-Max leads
Ministral 3B: 24.5 (#257), Qwen2.5-Max: 34.3 (#162)
| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | — | 58.4% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1369 |
| MATH Level 5 | 14.4% | — |
Knowledge Qwen2.5-Max leads
Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#297), Qwen2.5-Max: 34.8 (#181)
| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 25.3% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 21.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1337 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Ministral 3B: —, Qwen2.5-Max: 48.3 (#140)
| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1352 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1382 |
| LMArena French | — | 1396 |
| LMArena German | — | 1350 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1299 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1304 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1353 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1377 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Ministral 3B: —, Qwen2.5-Max: 71.5 (#147)
| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 75.3% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1335 |
Long Context Not comparable
Ministral 3B: —, Qwen2.5-Max: 41.3 (#137)
| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1358 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Ministral 3B: —, Qwen2.5-Max: 55.6 (#141)
| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1367 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1339 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 72.9% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1364 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 56.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Ministral 3B better than Qwen2.5-Max?
Qwen2.5-Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.1 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Ministral 3B and Qwen2.5-Max share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Ministral 3B has 6 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Max has 27.