Model comparison
Mistral 7B vs Qwen3 Coder Next
Qwen3 Coder Next is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.3 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in coding, where Qwen3 Coder Next leads 36.3 to 26.4.
- Mistral 7B is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $0.12 / $0.80 for Qwen3 Coder Next.
- Qwen3 Coder Next accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 8K.
Side by side
| Mistral 7B | Qwen3 Coder Next | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 23.0 | 34.3 |
| Released | 2023-09-27 | 2026-02-02 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 8K | 262K |
| Max output | 8K | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.25 | $0.12 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.25 | $0.80 |
| Results tracked | 37 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3 Coder Next leads
Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326), Qwen3 Coder Next: 36.3 (#210)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 32.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 34.4% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 19.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1082 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 27.3% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 36% | — |
| MBPP+ | 42.1% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3 Coder Next leads
Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336), Qwen3 Coder Next: 22.4 (#196)
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| 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 Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0.3% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1085 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 3.7% | — |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 15.2% | — |
| 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 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1060 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1060 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1090 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1068 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1062 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral 7B better than Qwen3 Coder Next?
Qwen3 Coder Next is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.3 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Mistral 7B or Qwen3 Coder Next?
Mistral 7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; Qwen3 Coder Next lists at $0.12 and $0.80.
Is Mistral 7B or Qwen3 Coder Next better for coding?
Qwen3 Coder Next scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.3 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen3 Coder Next does, with 262K tokens against 8K.
How many benchmarks do Mistral 7B and Qwen3 Coder Next share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral 7B has 37 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Coder Next has 3.