Noometry

Model comparison

Mistral Large 3 vs Qwen Plus

Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 37.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Large 3 Mistral AI

39.1

Rank #176 Confirmed

Qwen Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

37.1

Rank #210 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Large 3 scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen Plus in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Mistral Large 3 leads 38.7 to 23.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 50.9% for Mistral Large 3 and 63.3% for Qwen Plus.
  • Mistral Large 3 is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.75 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $1.20 for Qwen Plus.
  • Qwen Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
  • Mistral Large 3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Mistral Large 3Qwen Plus
ProviderMistral AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.137.1
Released2025-12-022024-01-25
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window262K1M
Max output8K33K
Input $ / M tokens$0.25$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$0.75$1.20
Results tracked2420

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Category by category

Coding Qwen Plus leads

Mistral Large 3: 34.4 (#237), Qwen Plus: 38.9 (#167)

BenchmarkMistral Large 3Qwen Plus
LMArena Coding14481328
LMArena WebDev1230—

Reasoning Qwen Plus leads

Mistral Large 3: 15.2 (#319), Qwen Plus: 28.4 (#107)

BenchmarkMistral Large 3Qwen Plus
Kagi LLM Benchmark50.9%63.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts14291317
NYT Connections (extended)7.5%—
Thematic Generalization23%—
DTBench—81.1%
LMCA—24%

Math Mistral Large 3 leads

Mistral Large 3: 38.7 (#129), Qwen Plus: 23.3 (#271)

BenchmarkMistral Large 3Qwen Plus
LMArena Math14141326
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—17.8%
MATH Level 5—65.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1.7%

Knowledge Mistral Large 3 leads

Mistral Large 3: 36.0 (#177), Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#251)

BenchmarkMistral Large 3Qwen Plus
LMArena Expert14211328
GPQA Diamond—48.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.5%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral Large 3: 38.2 (#66), Qwen Plus: —

BenchmarkMistral Large 3Qwen Plus
LMArena Vision1221—

Multilingual Mistral Large 3 leads

Mistral Large 3: 52.5 (#84), Qwen Plus: 45.1 (#175)

BenchmarkMistral Large 3Qwen Plus
LMArena Non-English14131310
LMArena Chinese14471347
LMArena Japanese13941251
LMArena Russian14111323
LMArena French1455—
LMArena German1437—
LMArena Korean1384—
LMArena Spanish1440—

Instruction Following Mistral Large 3 leads

Mistral Large 3: 74.0 (#108), Qwen Plus: 68.8 (#181)

BenchmarkMistral Large 3Qwen Plus
LMArena Instruction Following14031303

Long Context Mistral Large 3 leads

Mistral Large 3: 43.1 (#105), Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#158)

BenchmarkMistral Large 3Qwen Plus
LMArena Longer Query14131324

Writing & Preference Mistral Large 3 leads

Mistral Large 3: 60.0 (#101), Qwen Plus: 52.2 (#176)

BenchmarkMistral Large 3Qwen Plus
LMArena Text14281326
LMArena Creative Writing13861293
LMArena Multi-Turn14291336
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1412—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Large 3 better than Qwen Plus?

Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 37.1 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Mistral Large 3 or Qwen Plus?

Mistral Large 3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.75 per million output tokens; Qwen Plus lists at $0.40 and $1.20.

Is Mistral Large 3 or Qwen Plus better for coding?

Qwen Plus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.9 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen Plus does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Large 3 and Qwen Plus share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Large 3 has 24 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Plus has 20.

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