Model comparison
Mistral Medium 3 vs Qwen Plus
Qwen Plus has enough public results to be ranked (#204); Mistral Medium 3 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
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Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Mistral Medium 3 leads 34.1 to 27.4.
- Qwen Plus is cheaper at $0.40 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $2 for Mistral Medium 3.
- Qwen Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.
Side by side
| Mistral Medium 3 | Qwen Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 36.5 | 36.7 |
| Released | — | 2024-01-25 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 131K | 1M |
| Max output | 105K | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.40 | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2 | $1.20 |
| Results tracked | 2 | 20 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mistral Medium 3: —, Qwen Plus: 38.3 (#163)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3 | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1328 |
Reasoning Not comparable
Mistral Medium 3: —, Qwen Plus: 27.6 (#101)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3 | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 63.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1317 |
| DTBench | — | 81.1% |
| LMCA | — | 24% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 134.07 | — |
Math Not comparable
Mistral Medium 3: —, Qwen Plus: 22.0 (#266)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3 | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 17.8% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1326 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 65.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |
Knowledge Mistral Medium 3 leads
Mistral Medium 3: 34.1, Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#245)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3 | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 48.1% |
| Confabulations | 21.9% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1328 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral Medium 3: —, Qwen Plus: 45.3 (#170)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3 | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1310 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1347 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1251 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1323 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mistral Medium 3: —, Qwen Plus: 69.0 (#176)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3 | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1303 |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral Medium 3: —, Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#153)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3 | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1325 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mistral Medium 3: —, Qwen Plus: 52.4 (#171)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3 | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1326 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1293 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1336 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Medium 3 better than Qwen Plus?
Qwen Plus has enough public results to be ranked (#204); Mistral Medium 3 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium 3 or Qwen Plus?
Qwen Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3 lists at $0.40 and $2.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen Plus does, with 1M tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Medium 3 and Qwen Plus share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Medium 3 has 2 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Plus has 20.