Model comparison
Mistral 7B vs Qwen3 8B
Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral 7B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 8B in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3 8B leads 36.1 to 7.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 0.3% for Mistral 7B and 56.1% for Qwen3 8B.
- Mistral 7B is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $0.18 / $0.70 for Qwen3 8B.
- Qwen3 8B accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 8K.
Side by side
| Mistral 7B | Qwen3 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 23.0 | 33.7 |
| Released | 2023-09-27 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 8K | 131K |
| Max output | 8K | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.25 | $0.18 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.25 | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 37 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3 8B leads
Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326), Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 22.6% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 19.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1082 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 27.3% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 36% | — |
| MBPP+ | 42.1% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral 7B: —, Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 42.6% |
Reasoning Qwen3 8B leads
Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336), Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | 5% |
| DTBench | 42.5% | 59.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.21 | 136.17 |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1067 | — |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |
| Adversarial NLI | 47.1% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 56.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 81% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.3% | — |
Math Qwen3 8B leads
Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325), Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0.3% | 56.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1085 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 3.7% | — |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3 8B leads
Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311), Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 15.2% | 56.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.8% |
| 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), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| 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), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1060 | — |
Long Context Qwen3 8B leads
Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271), Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.1% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1060 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1090 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1068 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1062 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral 7B better than Qwen3 8B?
Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Mistral 7B or Qwen3 8B?
Mistral 7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; Qwen3 8B lists at $0.18 and $0.70.
Is Mistral 7B or Qwen3 8B better for coding?
Qwen3 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen3 8B does, with 131K tokens against 8K.
How many benchmarks do Mistral 7B and Qwen3 8B share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral 7B has 37 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.