Model comparison

Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Qwen3-4B

Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 0 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral AI

39.6

Rank #151 Confirmed

Qwen3-4B

Alibaba (Qwen)

31.5

Rank #261 Confirmed

Summary

The widest gap is in math, where Mistral Medium 3.5 leads 36.4 to 28.5.

Side by side

Mistral Medium 3.5 and Qwen3-4B specifications
	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3-4B
Provider	Mistral AI	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	39.6	31.5
Released	—	2025-04-29
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	262K	—
Max output	210K	—
Input $ / M tokens	$1.50	—
Output $ / M tokens	$7.50	—
Results tracked	22	6

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: 35.7 (#208), Qwen3-4B: —

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3-4B
LMArena WebDev	1263	—
LMArena Coding	1461	—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: —, Qwen3-4B: 27.3 (#94)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3-4B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	—	35.7%

Reasoning Qwen3-4B leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 16.6 (#290), Qwen3-4B: 18.5 (#264)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3-4B
Kagi LLM Benchmark	41.4%	—
NYT Connections (extended)	12.9%	—
Chess Puzzles	—	4%
LMArena Hard Prompts	1436	—
Epoch Capabilities Index	141.42	—

Math Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.4 (#113), Qwen3-4B: 28.5 (#228)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3-4B
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions	—	38.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	52.2%
LMArena Math	1432	—

Knowledge Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.3 (#123), Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#198)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3-4B
GPQA Diamond	—	52.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	—	5.7%
LMArena Expert	1431	—

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: 37.6 (#64), Qwen3-4B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3-4B
LMArena Vision	1222	—

Multilingual Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: 52.1 (#93), Qwen3-4B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3-4B
LMArena Non-English	1405	—
LMArena Chinese	1443	—
LMArena French	1448	—
LMArena German	1453	—
LMArena Korean	1387	—
LMArena Russian	1396	—
LMArena Spanish	1406	—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.7 (#87), Qwen3-4B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3-4B
LMArena Instruction Following	1414	—

Long Context Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#101), Qwen3-4B: —

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3-4B
LMArena Longer Query	1414	—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.6 (#113), Qwen3-4B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3-4B
LMArena Text	1421	—
LMArena Creative Writing	1372	—
EQ-Bench 4	993	—
LMArena Multi-Turn	1423	—

Frequently asked questions

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