Model comparison
Mistral 7B vs Qwen Turbo
Qwen Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.1 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral 7B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen Turbo in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen Turbo leads 22.2 to 7.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 3.7% for Mistral 7B and 56.2% for Qwen Turbo.
- Qwen Turbo is cheaper at $0.05 / $0.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $0.25 for Mistral 7B.
- Qwen Turbo accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 8K.
- Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mistral 7B | Qwen Turbo | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 23.0 | 27.1 |
| Released | 2023-09-27 | 2024-11-01 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 8K | 1M |
| Max output | 8K | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.25 | $0.05 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.25 | $0.20 |
| Results tracked | 37 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326), Qwen Turbo: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 19.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1082 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 27.3% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 36% | — |
| MBPP+ | 42.1% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336), Qwen Turbo: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1067 | — |
| DTBench | 42.5% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | 47.1% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 56.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.21 | — |
| HellaSwag | 81% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.3% | — |
Math Qwen Turbo leads
Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325), Qwen Turbo: 15.3 (#297)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0.3% | 6.1% |
| MATH Level 5 | 3.7% | 56.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1085 | — |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Qwen Turbo leads
Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311), Qwen Turbo: 22.2 (#272)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 15.2% | 41.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1036 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.6% | — |
| BoolQ | 87.4% | — |
| MMLU | 62.5% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 79.8% | — |
| TriviaQA | 75.2% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283), Qwen Turbo: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1012 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1009 | — |
| LMArena French | 1037 | — |
| LMArena German | 987 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 878 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1018 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1026 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280), Qwen Turbo: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1060 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271), Qwen Turbo: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1060 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286), Qwen Turbo: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1090 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1068 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1062 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral 7B better than Qwen Turbo?
Qwen Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.1 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Mistral 7B or Qwen Turbo?
Qwen Turbo is cheaper. It lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens; Mistral 7B lists at $0.25 and $0.25.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen Turbo does, with 1M tokens against 8K.
How many benchmarks do Mistral 7B and Qwen Turbo share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral 7B has 37 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Turbo has 3.