Noometry

Model comparison

Ministral 8B vs Qwen3 32B

Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 27.8 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 8B costs 12× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3 32B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Ministral 8B Mistral AI

27.8

Rank #321 Confirmed

Qwen3 32B Alibaba (Qwen)

38.8

Rank #166 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Ministral 8B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 32B in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3 32B leads 40.0 to 12.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 27.1% for Ministral 8B and 65.7% for Qwen3 32B.
  • Ministral 8B is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.10 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $2.80 for Qwen3 32B.
  • Qwen3 32B accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Ministral 8BQwen3 32B
ProviderMistral AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index27.838.8
Released2024-10-012025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K131K
Max output128K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.10$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$0.10$2.80
Results tracked1726

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 32B leads

Ministral 8B: 34.4 (#226), Qwen3 32B: 37.3 (#184)

BenchmarkMinistral 8BQwen3 32B
LMArena Coding12021358
Aider Polyglot—40%
SciCode—35.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3 32B leads

Ministral 8B: 16.2 (#140), Qwen3 32B: 32.3 (#58)

BenchmarkMinistral 8BQwen3 32B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard11.1%48.7%

Reasoning Qwen3 32B leads

Ministral 8B: 17.7 (#279), Qwen3 32B: 19.6 (#233)

BenchmarkMinistral 8BQwen3 32B
LMArena Hard Prompts11911335
DTBench45.7%67.5%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—5%
LMCA—17.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—138.51

Math Qwen3 32B leads

Ministral 8B: 23.7 (#262), Qwen3 32B: 37.9 (#89)

BenchmarkMinistral 8BQwen3 32B
LMArena Math11881399
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—66.9%
MATH Level 514.9%—

Knowledge Qwen3 32B leads

Ministral 8B: 12.5 (#292), Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#112)

BenchmarkMinistral 8BQwen3 32B
GPQA Diamond27.1%65.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.4%5.9%
LMArena Expert11701362

Multilingual Qwen3 32B leads

Ministral 8B: 35.3 (#242), Qwen3 32B: 45.8 (#162)

BenchmarkMinistral 8BQwen3 32B
LMArena Non-English11651317
LMArena Chinese11931357
LMArena Russian11951311
LMArena German—1341

Instruction Following Qwen3 32B leads

Ministral 8B: 60.7 (#245), Qwen3 32B: 69.1 (#174)

BenchmarkMinistral 8BQwen3 32B
LMArena Instruction Following11611305

Long Context Qwen3 32B leads

Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#222), Qwen3 32B: 43.7 (#83)

BenchmarkMinistral 8BQwen3 32B
LMArena Longer Query12121327
Fiction.LiveBench—74.2%

Writing & Preference Qwen3 32B leads

Ministral 8B: 39.8 (#241), Qwen3 32B: 53.1 (#158)

BenchmarkMinistral 8BQwen3 32B
LMArena Text11911340
LMArena Creative Writing11751297
LMArena Multi-Turn11661331

Frequently asked questions

Is Ministral 8B better than Qwen3 32B?

Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 27.8 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 8B costs 12× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3 32B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Ministral 8B or Qwen3 32B?

Ministral 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens; Qwen3 32B lists at $0.70 and $2.80.

Is Ministral 8B or Qwen3 32B better for coding?

Qwen3 32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.3 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3 32B does, with 131K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Ministral 8B and Qwen3 32B share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Ministral 8B has 17 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.

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