Model comparison

Mistral Large vs Qwen3 32B

Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Large Mistral AI

31.9

Rank #263 Confirmed

Qwen3 32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.2

Rank #172 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Large scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 32B in 9 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 32B leads 39.7 to 18.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 8.5% for Mistral Large and 66.9% for Qwen3 32B.
  • Qwen3 32B is cheaper at $0.70 / $2.80 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Mistral Large.

Side by side

Mistral Large and Qwen3 32B specifications
Mistral LargeQwen3 32B
ProviderMistral AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index31.939.2
Released2024-02-262025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K131K
Max output16K16K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$6$2.80
Results tracked5126

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 32B leads

Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240), Qwen3 32B: 37.7 (#190)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeQwen3 32B
SciCode36.2%35.4%
LMArena Coding12771358
Aider Polyglot—40%
BigCodeBench Instruct30%—
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete38.3%—
ALE-Bench264.7—
HumanEval+62.2%—
MBPP+59.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3 32B leads

Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89), Qwen3 32B: 32.6 (#62)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeQwen3 32B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard38.4%48.7%

Reasoning Qwen3 32B leads

Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310), Qwen3 32B: 20.2 (#241)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeQwen3 32B
CritPt0%0.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts12571334
DTBench65.1%67.5%
LMCA16.7%17.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index128.52138.51
SimpleBench22.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
Chess Puzzles—5%
LiveBench Reasoning43.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis50.1%—
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench48.4%—

Math Qwen3 32B leads

Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291), Qwen3 32B: 39.7 (#99)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeQwen3 32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%66.9%
LMArena Math12621399
Omni-MATH28.1%—
LiveBench Math42.5%—
MATH Level 550.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—

Knowledge Qwen3 32B leads

Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230), Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#125)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeQwen3 32B
GPQA Diamond51.3%65.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate4.5%5.9%
LMArena Expert12321362
MMLU-Pro59.9%—
Confabulations21.4%—
GPQA (HELM)43.5%—
MMLU80%—

Multilingual Qwen3 32B leads

Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219), Qwen3 32B: 45.6 (#167)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeQwen3 32B
LMArena Non-English12371317
LMArena Chinese12401357
LMArena German12541341
LMArena Russian12571311
LMArena French1325—
LMArena Japanese1188—
LMArena Korean1202—
LMArena Spanish1268—

Instruction Following Too close to call

Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191), Qwen3 32B: 68.9 (#179)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeQwen3 32B
LMArena Instruction Following12491305
LiveBench Instruction Following67.9%—
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Qwen3 32B leads

Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199), Qwen3 32B: 43.8 (#87)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeQwen3 32B
LMArena Longer Query12611327
Fiction.LiveBench—74.2%

Writing & Preference Qwen3 32B leads

Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242), Qwen3 32B: 52.9 (#163)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeQwen3 32B
LMArena Text12661340
LMArena Creative Writing12431297
LMArena Multi-Turn12601331
Short-Story Creative Writing69%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing985—
WildBench80.1%—
LiveBench Language39.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Large better than Qwen3 32B?

Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Mistral Large or Qwen3 32B?

Qwen3 32B is cheaper. It lists at $0.70 per million input tokens and $2.80 per million output tokens; Mistral Large lists at $2 and $6.

Is Mistral Large or Qwen3 32B better for coding?

Qwen3 32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.7 versus 34.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 131K tokens.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Large and Qwen3 32B share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Large has 51 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.

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