Model comparison

Mistral 7B vs QwQ-32B

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Mistral 7B Mistral AI

23.0

Rank #351 Confirmed

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.8

Rank #159 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral 7B scores higher in 0 categories and QwQ-32B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where QwQ-32B leads 37.2 to 7.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 0.3% for Mistral 7B and 59.2% for QwQ-32B.

Side by side

Mistral 7B and QwQ-32B specifications
Mistral 7BQwQ-32B
ProviderMistral AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index23.039.8
Released2023-09-272024-11-28
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window8K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.25—
Output $ / M tokens$0.25—
Results tracked3736

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Category by category

Coding QwQ-32B leads

Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral 7BQwQ-32B
BigCodeBench Instruct19.5%44.6%
LMArena Coding10821333
BigCodeBench Complete27.3%54.4%
Aider Polyglot—20.9%
LiveBench Coding—72.2%
HumanEval+36%—
MBPP+42.1%—

Reasoning QwQ-32B leads

Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral 7BQwQ-32B
Chess Puzzles0%5%
LMArena Hard Prompts10671325
Epoch Capabilities Index112.21137.6
LiveBench Reasoning—83.5%
DTBench42.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—65%
Adversarial NLI47.1%—
BIG-Bench Hard56.1%—
ForecastBench—58.3
HellaSwag81%—
LiveBench—72%
PIQA83%—
WinoGrande75.3%—

Math QwQ-32B leads

Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral 7BQwQ-32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250.3%59.2%
LMArena Math10851359
LiveBench Math—77.8%
MATH Level 53.7%—
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge QwQ-32B leads

Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral 7BQwQ-32B
GPQA Diamond15.2%65.3%
LMArena Expert10361324
Confabulations—15.6%
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.6%—
BoolQ87.4%—
MMLU62.5%—
OpenBookQA79.8%—
TriviaQA75.2%—

Multilingual QwQ-32B leads

Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral 7BQwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English10121305
LMArena Chinese10091378
LMArena French10371336
LMArena German9871313
LMArena Japanese8781262
LMArena Russian10181297
LMArena Spanish10261354
LMArena Korean—1279

Instruction Following QwQ-32B leads

Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral 7BQwQ-32B
LMArena Instruction Following10601297
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.8%

Long Context QwQ-32B leads

Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral 7BQwQ-32B
LMArena Longer Query10601308
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference QwQ-32B leads

Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral 7BQwQ-32B
LMArena Text10901329
LMArena Creative Writing10681288
LMArena Multi-Turn10621314
Short-Story Creative Writing—80.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1257
LiveBench Language—51.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral 7B better than QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Mistral 7B or QwQ-32B better for coding?

QwQ-32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.4 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Mistral 7B and QwQ-32B share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral 7B has 37 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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