Model comparison
Ministral 8B vs QwQ-32B
QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 27.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Ministral 8B scores higher in 0 categories and QwQ-32B in 8 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where QwQ-32B leads 37.2 to 12.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 27.1% for Ministral 8B and 65.3% for QwQ-32B.
Side by side
| Ministral 8B | QwQ-32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 27.8 | 39.4 |
| Released | 2024-10-01 | 2024-11-28 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 128K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.10 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.10 | — |
| Results tracked | 17 | 36 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Ministral 8B: 34.4 (#226), QwQ-32B: 34.9 (#220)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1202 | 1333 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 44.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.4% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 16.2 (#140), QwQ-32B: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 11.1% | — |
Reasoning QwQ-32B leads
Ministral 8B: 17.7 (#279), QwQ-32B: 22.9 (#171)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1326 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| DTBench | 45.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 137.6 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.3 |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |
Math QwQ-32B leads
Ministral 8B: 23.7 (#262), QwQ-32B: 36.2 (#123)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1188 | 1359 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 59.2% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |
| MATH Level 5 | 14.9% | — |
Knowledge QwQ-32B leads
Ministral 8B: 12.5 (#292), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#150)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 27.1% | 65.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1170 | 1323 |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.4% | — |
Multilingual QwQ-32B leads
Ministral 8B: 35.3 (#242), QwQ-32B: 45.0 (#171)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1165 | 1306 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1193 | 1378 |
| LMArena Russian | 1195 | 1297 |
| LMArena French | — | 1337 |
| LMArena German | — | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1263 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1278 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1353 |
Instruction Following QwQ-32B leads
Ministral 8B: 60.7 (#245), QwQ-32B: 72.8 (#131)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1161 | 1297 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |
Long Context QwQ-32B leads
Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#222), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1212 | 1308 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |
Writing & Preference QwQ-32B leads
Ministral 8B: 39.8 (#241), QwQ-32B: 50.9 (#175)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1191 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1175 | 1288 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1166 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1257 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Ministral 8B better than QwQ-32B?
QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 27.8 on the Noometry Index.
Is Ministral 8B or QwQ-32B better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (34.4 vs 34.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Ministral 8B and QwQ-32B share?
13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Ministral 8B has 17 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.