Model comparison

Ministral 3B vs Qwen2-72B

Qwen2-72B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

26.2

Rank #338 Confirmed

Qwen2-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.0

Rank #300 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Ministral 3B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen2-72B in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen2-72B leads 21.2 to 10.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 14.4% for Ministral 3B and 39.1% for Qwen2-72B.

Side by side

Ministral 3B and Qwen2-72B specifications
Ministral 3BQwen2-72B
ProviderMistral AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index26.230.0
Released2024-10-012024-06-07
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output262K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.10—
Output $ / M tokens$0.10—
Results tracked626

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Qwen2-72B: 29.1 (#310)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BQwen2-72B
WeirdML—11.3%
BigCodeBench Instruct—38.5%
LMArena Coding—1196
BigCodeBench Complete—54%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Qwen2-72B: 17.0 (#146)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BQwen2-72B
TheAgentCompany—1.1%
METR Time Horizons—29.9%

Reasoning Qwen2-72B leads

Ministral 3B: 18.4 (#282), Qwen2-72B: 23.2 (#181)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BQwen2-72B
Epoch Capabilities Index118.1125.28
LMArena Hard Prompts—1191
DTBench51.7%—
LMCA5.5%—

Math Qwen2-72B leads

Ministral 3B: 26.6 (#258), Qwen2-72B: 30.2 (#236)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BQwen2-72B
MATH Level 514.4%39.1%
LMArena Math—1235

Knowledge Qwen2-72B leads

Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#302), Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#275)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BQwen2-72B
GPQA Diamond25.3%40.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.3%—
LMArena Expert—1171
MMLU—82.4%

Multilingual Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Qwen2-72B: 35.9 (#244)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BQwen2-72B
LMArena Non-English—1176
LMArena Chinese—1240
LMArena French—1170
LMArena German—1151
LMArena Japanese—1111
LMArena Korean—1083
LMArena Russian—1169
LMArena Spanish—1169

Instruction Following Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Qwen2-72B: 61.7 (#241)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BQwen2-72B
LMArena Instruction Following—1181

Long Context Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#235)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BQwen2-72B
LMArena Longer Query—1192

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Qwen2-72B: 40.8 (#241)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BQwen2-72B
LMArena Text—1203
LMArena Creative Writing—1181
LMArena Multi-Turn—1196

Frequently asked questions

Is Ministral 3B better than Qwen2-72B?

Qwen2-72B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Ministral 3B and Qwen2-72B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Ministral 3B has 6 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.

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