Model comparison

Mistral Large 3 vs Qwen3-30B-A3B

Mistral Large 3 and Qwen3-30B-A3B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.6 vs 38.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 18 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Large 3

Mistral AI

38.6

Rank #172 Confirmed

Qwen3-30B-A3B

Alibaba (Qwen)

38.5

Rank #174 Confirmed

Summary

They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Large 3 scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen3-30B-A3B in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in long context, where Mistral Large 3 leads 43.1 to 31.0.
Qwen3-30B-A3B is cheaper at $0.12 / $0.50 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $0.75 for Mistral Large 3.
Mistral Large 3 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 41K.

Side by side

Mistral Large 3 and Qwen3-30B-A3B specifications
	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-30B-A3B
Provider	Mistral AI	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	38.6	38.5
Released	2025-12-02	2025-04-28
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	262K	41K
Max output	8K	16K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.25	$0.12
Output $ / M tokens	$0.75	$0.50
Results tracked	24	32

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Mistral Large 3: 34.1 (#230), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.0 (#188)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Coding	1447	1416
LMArena WebDev	1230	—
SciCode	—	33.3%
WeirdML	—	29.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mistral Large 3: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.5 (#75)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-30B-A3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	—	41.4%

Reasoning Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Mistral Large 3: 14.6 (#314), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 21.6 (#193)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-30B-A3B
Kagi LLM Benchmark	50.9%	54.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts	1429	1398
NYT Connections (extended)	7.5%	—
CritPt	—	0.3%
Chess Puzzles	—	8%
Thematic Generalization	23%	—
DTBench	—	69.3%
LMCA	—	22.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index	—	139.63

Math Too close to call

Mistral Large 3: 36.0 (#131), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 36.0 (#133)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Math	1415	1394
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions	—	47.8%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	70.3%

Knowledge Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Mistral Large 3: 35.5 (#173), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.7 (#96)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Expert	1421	1395
GPQA Diamond	—	70.1%
Confabulations	—	12.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	14.5%	—

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral Large 3: 37.6 (#65), Qwen3-30B-A3B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Vision	1222	—

Multilingual Mistral Large 3 leads

Mistral Large 3: 52.6 (#79), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.8 (#126)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Non-English	1412	1372
LMArena Chinese	1448	1434
LMArena French	1456	1419
LMArena German	1438	1379
LMArena Japanese	1399	1338
LMArena Korean	1384	1333
LMArena Russian	1412	1369
LMArena Spanish	1437	1403

Instruction Following Mistral Large 3 leads

Mistral Large 3: 74.1 (#104), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.2 (#137)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following	1402	1364

Long Context Mistral Large 3 leads

Mistral Large 3: 43.1 (#102), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#278)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query	1413	1379
Fiction.LiveBench	—	40.6%

Writing & Preference Mistral Large 3 leads

Mistral Large 3: 60.2 (#100), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.9 (#138)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Text	1427	1384
LMArena Creative Writing	1385	1318
LMArena Multi-Turn	1429	1378
Short-Story Creative Writing	—	75.3%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	1412	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Large 3 better than Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Mistral Large 3 and Qwen3-30B-A3B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.6 vs 38.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Mistral Large 3 or Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Qwen3-30B-A3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.12 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens; Mistral Large 3 lists at $0.25 and $0.75.

Is Mistral Large 3 or Qwen3-30B-A3B better for coding?

Qwen3-30B-A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.0 versus 34.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Large 3 does, with 262K tokens against 41K.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Large 3 and Qwen3-30B-A3B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Large 3 has 24 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32.