Model comparison

Mistral Large vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.9 to 31.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Large Mistral AI

31.6

Rank #258 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

32.9

Rank #239 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Large scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B in 4 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads 30.8 to 17.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 38.3% for Mistral Large and 58% for Qwen2.5-Coder-32B.
  • Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is cheaper at $0.66 / $1 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Mistral Large.
  • Mistral Large accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 33K.

Side by side

Mistral Large and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B specifications
Mistral LargeQwen2.5-Coder-32B
ProviderMistral AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index31.632.9
Released2024-02-262024-09-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K33K
Max output16K29K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.66
Output $ / M tokens$6$1
Results tracked5131

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Category by category

Coding Mistral Large leads

Mistral Large: 33.8 (#240), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.4 (#328)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeQwen2.5-Coder-32B
BigCodeBench Instruct30%49%
LiveBench Coding47.1%56.9%
LMArena Coding12771276
BigCodeBench Complete38.3%58%
HumanEval+62.2%87.2%
MBPP+59.5%77%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—9%
Aider Polyglot—16.4%
SciCode36.2%—
ALE-Bench264.7—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mistral Large: 28.4 (#83), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeQwen2.5-Coder-32B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard38.4%—

Reasoning Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Mistral Large: 15.4 (#305), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 20.4 (#220)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LiveBench Reasoning43.5%42.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts12571251
LiveBench Data Analysis50.1%49.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index128.52119.41
LiveBench48.4%46.2%
SimpleBench22.5%—
CritPt0%—
DTBench65.1%—
LMCA16.7%—
ForecastBench57.1—
HellaSwag—83%
WinoGrande—80.8%

Math Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Mistral Large: 17.1 (#285), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 30.8 (#203)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LiveBench Math42.5%46.6%
LMArena Math12621251
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%—
Omni-MATH28.1%—
MATH Level 550.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—
GSM8K—93%

Knowledge Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Mistral Large: 30.0 (#224), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 32.9 (#200)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Expert12321221
MMLU80%79.1%
GPQA Diamond51.3%—
MMLU-Pro59.9%—
Confabulations21.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate4.5%—
GPQA (HELM)43.5%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—70.5%

Multilingual Mistral Large leads

Mistral Large: 40.1 (#214), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#230)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Non-English12371205
LMArena Chinese12401222
LMArena Russian12571228
LMArena French1324—
LMArena German1254—
LMArena Japanese1187—
LMArena Korean1202—
LMArena Spanish1268—

Instruction Following Mistral Large leads

Mistral Large: 68.1 (#186), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.6 (#240)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LiveBench Instruction Following67.9%58.7%
LMArena Instruction Following12491223
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Too close to call

Mistral Large: 38.3 (#194), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.9 (#204)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Longer Query12621251

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Mistral Large: 40.9 (#237), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.8 (#235)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Text12661230
LMArena Creative Writing12431174
LMArena Multi-Turn12601222
LiveBench Language39.4%23.3%
Short-Story Creative Writing69%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing985—
WildBench80.1%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Large better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.9 to 31.6 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Mistral Large or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is cheaper. It lists at $0.66 per million input tokens and $1 per million output tokens; Mistral Large lists at $2 and $6.

Is Mistral Large or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B better for coding?

Mistral Large scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 22.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Large does, with 131K tokens against 33K.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Large and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Large has 51 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.

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