Model comparison

Mistral Medium vs Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)

Mistral Medium has enough public results to be ranked (#218); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

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Mistral Medium and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) specifications
Mistral MediumQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
ProviderMistral AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index36.3—
Released2023-12-112024-09-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K—
Max output262K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.50—
Output $ / M tokens$7.50—
Results tracked366

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral MediumQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
FrontierCode8%—
SciCode40.2%—
WeirdML43.7%—
LMArena Coding1434—
ALE-Bench763.98—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral MediumQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard37.7%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral MediumQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
Kagi LLM Benchmark50%—
CritPt0%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1426—
DTBench75.5%—
LMCA26.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench26.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—113.14
HellaSwag—76.8%
WinoGrande—72.9%

Math Not comparable

Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral MediumQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202532.2%—
ProofBench9%—
LMArena Math1408—
MATH Level 581.6%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—
GSM8K—86.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral MediumQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
GPQA Diamond59.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam4.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate22.7%—
LMArena Expert1408—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—60.9%
MMLU—68%

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral MediumQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
LMArena Vision1172—

Multilingual Not comparable

Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral MediumQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
LMArena Non-English1408—
LMArena Chinese1447—
LMArena French1459—
LMArena German1432—
LMArena Japanese1378—
LMArena Korean1380—
LMArena Russian1411—
LMArena Spanish1433—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral MediumQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
LMArena Instruction Following1398—

Long Context Not comparable

Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral MediumQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
LMArena Longer Query1406—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral MediumQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
LMArena Text1424—
LMArena Creative Writing1391—
Short-Story Creative Writing77.3%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1418—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Medium better than Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)?

Mistral Medium has enough public results to be ranked (#218); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Medium and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Medium has 36 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has 6.

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