Model comparison

Mistral Nemo vs Qwen Plus

Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.1 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 4.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen Plus's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 3 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Nemo

Mistral AI

26.4

Rank #337 Confirmed

Qwen Plus

Alibaba (Qwen)

37.1

Rank #210 Confirmed

Summary

They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Nemo scores higher in 1 category and Qwen Plus in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen Plus leads 52.2 to 28.5.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 10.8% for Mistral Nemo and 65.3% for Qwen Plus.
Mistral Nemo is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $1.20 for Qwen Plus.
Qwen Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 128K.
Mistral Nemo has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Mistral Nemo and Qwen Plus specifications
	Mistral Nemo	Qwen Plus
Provider	Mistral AI	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	26.4	37.1
Released	2024-07-01	2024-01-25
Weights	Open	Proprietary
Context window	128K	1M
Max output	128K	33K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.15	$0.40
Output $ / M tokens	$0.15	$1.20
Results tracked	10	20

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Mistral Nemo: —, Qwen Plus: 38.9 (#167)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Nemo	Qwen Plus
LMArena Coding	—	1328

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125), Qwen Plus: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Nemo	Qwen Plus
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	27.6%	—
BALROG	17.6%	—

Reasoning Qwen Plus leads

Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232), Qwen Plus: 28.4 (#107)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Nemo	Qwen Plus
DTBench	48.6%	81.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark	—	63.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts	—	1317
LMCA	—	24%
Epoch Capabilities Index	118.68	—
PIQA	83.5%	—

Math Mistral Nemo leads

Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268), Qwen Plus: 23.3 (#271)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Nemo	Qwen Plus
MATH Level 5	10.8%	65.3%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	17.8%
LMArena Math	—	1326
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)	—	1.7%
GSM8K	84.2%	—

Knowledge Qwen Plus leads

Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298), Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#251)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Nemo	Qwen Plus
GPQA Diamond	29.9%	48.1%
LMArena Expert	—	1328
BoolQ	82.5%	—

Multilingual Not comparable

Mistral Nemo: —, Qwen Plus: 45.1 (#175)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Nemo	Qwen Plus
LMArena Non-English	—	1310
LMArena Chinese	—	1347
LMArena Japanese	—	1251
LMArena Russian	—	1323

Instruction Following Not comparable

Mistral Nemo: —, Qwen Plus: 68.8 (#181)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Nemo	Qwen Plus
LMArena Instruction Following	—	1303

Long Context Not comparable

Mistral Nemo: —, Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#158)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Nemo	Qwen Plus
LMArena Longer Query	—	1324

Writing & Preference Qwen Plus leads

Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296), Qwen Plus: 52.2 (#176)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Nemo	Qwen Plus
LMArena Text	—	1326
LMArena Creative Writing	—	1293
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	881	—
LMArena Multi-Turn	—	1336

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Nemo better than Qwen Plus?

Which is cheaper, Mistral Nemo or Qwen Plus?

Mistral Nemo is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Qwen Plus lists at $0.40 and $1.20.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen Plus does, with 1M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Nemo and Qwen Plus share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Nemo has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Plus has 20.