Model comparison

Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Qwen3 32B

Mistral Medium 3.5 and Qwen3 32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (40.2 vs 39.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified October 11, 2026. 15 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral AI

40.2

Rank #152 Confirmed

Qwen3 32B

Alibaba (Qwen)

39.2

Rank #172 Confirmed

Summary

They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3 32B in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in multilingual, where Mistral Medium 3.5 leads 51.9 to 45.6.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 41.4% for Mistral Medium 3.5 and 54.9% for Qwen3 32B.
Qwen3 32B 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 Qwen3 32B specifications
	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 32B
Provider	Mistral AI	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	40.2	39.2
Released	—	2025-04
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	262K	131K
Max output	210K	16K
Input $ / M tokens	$1.50	$0.70
Output $ / M tokens	$7.50	$2.80
Results tracked	22	26

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 32B leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.0 (#213), Qwen3 32B: 37.7 (#190)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 32B
LMArena Coding	1461	1358
Aider Polyglot	—	40%
LMArena WebDev	1264	—
SciCode	—	35.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: —, Qwen3 32B: 32.6 (#62)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 32B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	—	48.7%

Reasoning Qwen3 32B leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 17.3 (#295), Qwen3 32B: 20.2 (#241)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 32B
Kagi LLM Benchmark	41.4%	54.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts	1436	1334
Epoch Capabilities Index	141.35	138.51
NYT Connections (extended)	12.9%	—
CritPt	—	0.3%
Chess Puzzles	—	5%
DTBench	—	67.5%
LMCA	—	17.3%

Math Too close to call

Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.1 (#113), Qwen3 32B: 39.7 (#99)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 32B
LMArena Math	1431	1399
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	66.9%

Knowledge Too close to call

Mistral Medium 3.5: 40.0 (#126), Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#125)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 32B
LMArena Expert	1432	1362
GPQA Diamond	—	65.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	—	5.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: 38.3 (#65), Qwen3 32B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 32B
LMArena Vision	1223	—

Multilingual Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 51.9 (#100), Qwen3 32B: 45.6 (#167)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 32B
LMArena Non-English	1404	1317
LMArena Chinese	1442	1357
LMArena German	1451	1341
LMArena Russian	1395	1311
LMArena French	1448	—
LMArena Korean	1385	—
LMArena Spanish	1409	—

Instruction Following Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.6 (#90), Qwen3 32B: 68.9 (#179)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 32B
LMArena Instruction Following	1415	1305

Long Context Too close to call

Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#103), Qwen3 32B: 43.8 (#87)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 32B
LMArena Longer Query	1415	1327
Fiction.LiveBench	—	74.2%

Writing & Preference Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.5 (#117), Qwen3 32B: 52.9 (#163)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 32B
LMArena Text	1421	1340
LMArena Creative Writing	1374	1297
LMArena Multi-Turn	1423	1331
EQ-Bench 4	993	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Medium 3.5 better than Qwen3 32B?

Mistral Medium 3.5 and Qwen3 32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (40.2 vs 39.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium 3.5 or Qwen3 32B?

Qwen3 32B 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 Qwen3 32B better for coding?

Qwen3 32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.7 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 Qwen3 32B share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.