Model comparison
Mistral Large vs Qwen1.5-14B
Mistral Large and Qwen1.5-14B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 32.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Large scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen1.5-14B in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen1.5-14B leads 32.4 to 18.2.
Side by side
| Mistral Large | Qwen1.5-14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 32.7 |
| Released | 2024-02-26 | 2024-02-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | — |
| Max output | 16K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $6 | — |
| Results tracked | 51 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Large leads
Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240), Qwen1.5-14B: 33.1 (#263)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen1.5-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1277 | 1138 |
| SciCode | 36.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 30% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 47.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 38.3% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 264.7 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 62.2% | — |
| MBPP+ | 59.5% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89), Qwen1.5-14B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen1.5-14B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 38.4% | — |
Reasoning Qwen1.5-14B leads
Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310), Qwen1.5-14B: 21.4 (#223)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen1.5-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1113 |
| SimpleBench | 22.5% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 43.5% | — |
| DTBench | 65.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 50.1% | — |
| LMCA | 16.7% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 128.52 | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.1 | — |
| LiveBench | 48.4% | — |
Math Qwen1.5-14B leads
Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291), Qwen1.5-14B: 32.4 (#215)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen1.5-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1262 | 1125 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.5% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 28.1% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 42.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 50.3% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |
Knowledge Too close to call
Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230), Qwen1.5-14B: 29.8 (#232)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen1.5-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1232 | 1094 |
| MMLU | 80% | 68.6% |
| GPQA Diamond | 51.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 59.9% | — |
| Confabulations | 21.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 4.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.5% | — |
Multilingual Mistral Large leads
Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219), Qwen1.5-14B: 30.7 (#262)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen1.5-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1237 | 1095 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1240 | 1147 |
| LMArena French | 1325 | 1116 |
| LMArena German | 1254 | 1043 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1188 | 1019 |
| LMArena Russian | 1257 | 1046 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1268 | 1085 |
| LMArena Korean | 1202 | — |
Instruction Following Mistral Large leads
Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191), Qwen1.5-14B: 56.8 (#271)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen1.5-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1249 | 1102 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.9% | — |
| IFEval | 87.7% | — |
Long Context Mistral Large leads
Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199), Qwen1.5-14B: 33.7 (#257)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen1.5-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1261 | 1113 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Large leads
Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242), Qwen1.5-14B: 33.6 (#276)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen1.5-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1266 | 1128 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1243 | 1091 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1260 | 1110 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 69% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 985 | — |
| WildBench | 80.1% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 39.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Large better than Qwen1.5-14B?
Mistral Large and Qwen1.5-14B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 32.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Mistral Large or Qwen1.5-14B better for coding?
Mistral Large scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.3 versus 33.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Large and Qwen1.5-14B share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Large has 51 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-14B has 17.