Model comparison

Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.2 to 30.1 on the Noometry Index. Qwen2.5 32B Instruct costs 2.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium 3.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 1 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral AI

40.2

Rank #152 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Alibaba (Qwen)

30.1

Rank #297 Confirmed

Summary

They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in math, where Mistral Medium 3.5 leads 39.1 to 16.2.
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct is cheaper at $0.70 / $2.80 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium 3.5.
Mistral Medium 3.5 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

Mistral Medium 3.5 and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct specifications
	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
Provider	Mistral AI	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	40.2	30.1
Released	—	2024-09
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	262K	131K
Max output	210K	8K
Input $ / M tokens	$1.50	$0.70
Output $ / M tokens	$7.50	$2.80
Results tracked	22	7

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Category by category

Coding Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.0 (#213), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 38.7 (#169)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena WebDev	1264	—
BigCodeBench Instruct	—	45%
LMArena Coding	1461	—
BigCodeBench Complete	—	52.3%

Reasoning Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 17.3 (#295), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 19.2 (#266)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
Epoch Capabilities Index	141.35	128.52
Kagi LLM Benchmark	41.4%	—
NYT Connections (extended)	12.9%	—
Chess Puzzles	—	0%
LMArena Hard Prompts	1436	—

Math Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.1 (#113), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 16.2 (#296)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	7.4%
LMArena Math	1431	—
MATH Level 5	—	56.1%

Knowledge Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 40.0 (#126), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 24.9 (#266)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
GPQA Diamond	—	46.1%
LMArena Expert	1432	—

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: 38.3 (#65), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Vision	1223	—

Multilingual Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: 51.9 (#100), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Non-English	1404	—
LMArena Chinese	1442	—
LMArena French	1448	—
LMArena German	1451	—
LMArena Korean	1385	—
LMArena Russian	1395	—
LMArena Spanish	1409	—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.6 (#90), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following	1415	—

Long Context Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#103), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query	1415	—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.5 (#117), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Text	1421	—
LMArena Creative Writing	1374	—
EQ-Bench 4	993	—
LMArena Multi-Turn	1423	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Medium 3.5 better than Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium 3.5 or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.70 per million input tokens and $2.80 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.5 lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

Is Mistral Medium 3.5 or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 36.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Medium 3.5 does, with 262K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Medium 3.5 and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has 7.