Model comparison

Mistral Large vs Qwen-14B

Mistral Large and Qwen-14B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 31.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Large Mistral AI

31.9

Rank #263 Confirmed

Qwen-14B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.4

Rank #275 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Large scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen-14B in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where Mistral Large leads 67.9 to 52.4.

Side by side

Mistral Large and Qwen-14B specifications
Mistral LargeQwen-14B
ProviderMistral AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index31.931.4
Released2024-02-262023-09-24
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$6—
Results tracked5118

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Category by category

Coding Mistral Large leads

Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240), Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#288)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeQwen-14B
LMArena Coding12771071
SciCode36.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct30%—
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete38.3%—
ALE-Bench264.7—
HumanEval+62.2%—
MBPP+59.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89), Qwen-14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeQwen-14B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard38.4%—

Reasoning Qwen-14B leads

Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310), Qwen-14B: 19.6 (#257)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeQwen-14B
LMArena Hard Prompts12571027
Epoch Capabilities Index128.52113.03
SimpleBench22.5%—
CritPt0%—
LiveBench Reasoning43.5%—
DTBench65.1%—
LiveBench Data Analysis50.1%—
LMCA16.7%—
BIG-Bench Hard—55%
ForecastBench57.1—
LAMBADA—71.1%
LiveBench48.4%—
PIQA—79.9%

Math Qwen-14B leads

Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291), Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#227)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeQwen-14B
LMArena Math12621068
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%—
Omni-MATH28.1%—
LiveBench Math42.5%—
MATH Level 550.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—
GSM8K—61.3%

Knowledge Not comparable

Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230), Qwen-14B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeQwen-14B
MMLU80%66.3%
GPQA Diamond51.3%—
MMLU-Pro59.9%—
Confabulations21.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate4.5%—
GPQA (HELM)43.5%—
LMArena Expert1232—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—84.4%
BoolQ—86.2%

Multilingual Mistral Large leads

Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219), Qwen-14B: 27.5 (#275)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeQwen-14B
LMArena Non-English12371041
LMArena Chinese12401077
LMArena French1325—
LMArena German1254—
LMArena Japanese1188—
LMArena Korean1202—
LMArena Russian1257—
LMArena Spanish1268—

Instruction Following Mistral Large leads

Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191), Qwen-14B: 52.4 (#289)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeQwen-14B
LMArena Instruction Following12491031
LiveBench Instruction Following67.9%—
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Mistral Large leads

Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199), Qwen-14B: 31.3 (#280)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeQwen-14B
LMArena Longer Query12611028

Writing & Preference Mistral Large leads

Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242), Qwen-14B: 27.6 (#299)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeQwen-14B
LMArena Text12661051
LMArena Creative Writing12431028
LMArena Multi-Turn12601022
Short-Story Creative Writing69%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing985—
WildBench80.1%—
LiveBench Language39.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Large better than Qwen-14B?

Mistral Large and Qwen-14B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 31.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Mistral Large or Qwen-14B better for coding?

Mistral Large scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.3 versus 31.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Large and Qwen-14B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Large has 51 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-14B has 18.

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