Model comparison
Mistral Large vs Qwen3.5 Plus
Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Large scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 Plus in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.5 Plus leads 49.6 to 18.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 8.5% for Mistral Large and 86.7% for Qwen3.5 Plus.
- Qwen3.5 Plus is cheaper at $0.40 / $2.40 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Mistral Large.
- Qwen3.5 Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.
- Mistral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 42.9 |
| Released | 2024-02-26 | 2026-02-16 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 131K | 1M |
| Max output | 16K | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2 | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $6 | $2.40 |
| Results tracked | 51 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| ALE-Bench | 264.7 | 621.92 |
| SciCode | 36.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 30% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 47.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1277 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 38.3% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 62.2% | — |
| MBPP+ | 59.5% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 38.4% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 0.54 |
Reasoning Qwen3.5 Plus leads
Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310), Qwen3.5 Plus: 32.8 (#74)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 65.1% | 80.5% |
| LMCA | 16.7% | 36.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 128.52 | 146.78 |
| SimpleBench | 22.5% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 22% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 43.5% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 17% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 50.1% | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.1 | — |
| LiveBench | 48.4% | — |
Math Qwen3.5 Plus leads
Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291), Qwen3.5 Plus: 49.6 (#61)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.5% | 86.7% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | 21% |
| Omni-MATH | 28.1% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 42.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1262 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 50.3% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 2.1% |
Knowledge Qwen3.5 Plus leads
Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230), Qwen3.5 Plus: 46.0 (#83)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 51.3% | 84.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 4.5% | 10.7% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 25.4% |
| MMLU-Pro | 59.9% | — |
| Confabulations | 21.4% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.5% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1232 | — |
| MMLU | 80% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1237 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1240 | — |
| LMArena French | 1325 | — |
| LMArena German | 1254 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1188 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1202 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1257 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1268 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.9% | — |
| IFEval | 87.7% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1249 | — |
Long Context Qwen3.5 Plus leads
Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199), Qwen3.5 Plus: 43.0 (#113)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| CL-bench | — | 19.8% |
| CL-bench Life | — | 12.4% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1261 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1266 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1243 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 69% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 985 | — |
| WildBench | 80.1% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1260 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 39.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Large better than Qwen3.5 Plus?
Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Mistral Large or Qwen3.5 Plus?
Qwen3.5 Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $2.40 per million output tokens; Mistral Large lists at $2 and $6.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen3.5 Plus does, with 1M tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Large and Qwen3.5 Plus share?
8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Large has 51 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Plus has 15.