Model comparison
Mistral Medium 3.5 vs QwQ-32B
Mistral Medium 3.5 and QwQ-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (40.2 vs 39.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher in 6 categories and QwQ-32B in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium 3.5 leads 58.5 to 50.6.
Side by side
| Mistral Medium 3.5 | QwQ-32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 40.2 | 39.8 |
| Released | — | 2024-11-28 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | — |
| Max output | 210K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1.50 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $7.50 | — |
| Results tracked | 22 | 36 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.0 (#213), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1461 | 1333 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1264 | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 44.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.4% |
Reasoning QwQ-32B leads
Mistral Medium 3.5: 17.3 (#295), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1436 | 1325 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.35 | 137.6 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 41.4% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 12.9% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.3 |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |
Math Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.1 (#113), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1431 | 1359 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 59.2% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |
Knowledge Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
Mistral Medium 3.5: 40.0 (#126), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1432 | 1324 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 65.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Mistral Medium 3.5: 38.3 (#65), QwQ-32B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1223 | — |
Multilingual Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
Mistral Medium 3.5: 51.9 (#100), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1404 | 1305 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1442 | 1378 |
| LMArena French | 1448 | 1336 |
| LMArena German | 1451 | 1313 |
| LMArena Korean | 1385 | 1279 |
| LMArena Russian | 1395 | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1409 | 1354 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1262 |
Instruction Following Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.6 (#90), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1415 | 1297 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |
Long Context QwQ-32B leads
Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#103), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1415 | 1308 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |
Writing & Preference Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.5 (#117), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1421 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1374 | 1288 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1423 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1257 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 993 | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Medium 3.5 better than QwQ-32B?
Mistral Medium 3.5 and QwQ-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (40.2 vs 39.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Mistral Medium 3.5 or QwQ-32B better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (36.0 vs 35.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Medium 3.5 and QwQ-32B share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.