Model comparison

Mistral Large 3 vs Qwen3-1.7B

Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 0 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Large 3

Mistral AI

38.6

Rank #172 Confirmed

Qwen3-1.7B

Alibaba (Qwen)

26.2

Rank #331 Reported

Summary

The widest gap is in math, where Mistral Large 3 leads 36.0 to 15.4.

Side by side

Mistral Large 3 and Qwen3-1.7B specifications
	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-1.7B
Provider	Mistral AI	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	38.6	26.2
Released	2025-12-02	2025-04-29
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	262K	—
Max output	8K	—
Input $ / M tokens	$0.25	—
Output $ / M tokens	$0.75	—
Results tracked	24	4

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Mistral Large 3: 34.1 (#230), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-1.7B
LMArena WebDev	1230	—
LMArena Coding	1447	—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mistral Large 3: —, Qwen3-1.7B: 24.5 (#108)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-1.7B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	—	28.4%

Reasoning Qwen3-1.7B leads

Mistral Large 3: 14.6 (#314), Qwen3-1.7B: 18.5 (#263)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-1.7B
Kagi LLM Benchmark	50.9%	—
NYT Connections (extended)	7.5%	—
Chess Puzzles	—	0%
Thematic Generalization	23%	—
LMArena Hard Prompts	1429	—

Math Mistral Large 3 leads

Mistral Large 3: 36.0 (#131), Qwen3-1.7B: 15.4 (#288)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-1.7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	8.1%
LMArena Math	1415	—

Knowledge Mistral Large 3 leads

Mistral Large 3: 35.5 (#173), Qwen3-1.7B: 19.6 (#273)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-1.7B
GPQA Diamond	—	38%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	14.5%	—
LMArena Expert	1421	—

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral Large 3: 37.6 (#65), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-1.7B
LMArena Vision	1222	—

Multilingual Not comparable

Mistral Large 3: 52.6 (#79), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-1.7B
LMArena Non-English	1412	—
LMArena Chinese	1448	—
LMArena French	1456	—
LMArena German	1438	—
LMArena Japanese	1399	—
LMArena Korean	1384	—
LMArena Russian	1412	—
LMArena Spanish	1437	—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Mistral Large 3: 74.1 (#104), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-1.7B
LMArena Instruction Following	1402	—

Long Context Not comparable

Mistral Large 3: 43.1 (#102), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-1.7B
LMArena Longer Query	1413	—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Mistral Large 3: 60.2 (#100), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-1.7B
LMArena Text	1427	—
LMArena Creative Writing	1385	—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	1412	—
LMArena Multi-Turn	1429	—

Frequently asked questions

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