Model comparison
Mistral Medium vs Qwen3 Coder Next
Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 34.3 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3 Coder Next costs 10× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Medium scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 Coder Next in 1 category; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 43.7% for Mistral Medium and 34.4% for Qwen3 Coder Next.
- Qwen3 Coder Next is cheaper at $0.12 / $0.80 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium.
Side by side
| Mistral Medium | Qwen3 Coder Next | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 36.3 | 34.3 |
| Released | 2023-12-11 | 2026-02-02 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | 262K |
| Max output | 262K | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1.50 | $0.12 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $7.50 | $0.80 |
| Results tracked | 36 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3 Coder Next leads
Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243), Qwen3 Coder Next: 36.3 (#210)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 40.2% | 32.3% |
| WeirdML | 43.7% | 34.4% |
| FrontierCode | 8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1434 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 763.98 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.7% | — |
Reasoning Mistral Medium leads
Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167), Qwen3 Coder Next: 22.4 (#196)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0% | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 50% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1426 | — |
| DTBench | 75.5% | — |
| LMCA | 26.1% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 26.9% | — |
Math Not comparable
Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 32.2% | — |
| ProofBench | 9% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1408 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 81.6% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 59.5% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 22.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1408 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1172 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1408 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1447 | — |
| LMArena French | 1459 | — |
| LMArena German | 1432 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1378 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1380 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1411 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1433 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1398 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1406 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1424 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1391 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 77.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1418 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Medium better than Qwen3 Coder Next?
Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 34.3 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3 Coder Next costs 10× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium or Qwen3 Coder Next?
Qwen3 Coder Next is cheaper. It lists at $0.12 per million input tokens and $0.80 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium lists at $1.50 and $7.50.
Is Mistral Medium or Qwen3 Coder Next better for coding?
Qwen3 Coder Next scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.3 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 262K tokens.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Medium and Qwen3 Coder Next share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Medium has 36 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Coder Next has 3.