Model comparison
Mistral Small 3.1 vs Qwen-14B
Mistral Small 3.1 and Qwen-14B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.7 vs 31.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small 3.1 scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen-14B in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen-14B leads 31.2 to 14.7.
Side by side
| Mistral Small 3.1 | Qwen-14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.7 | 31.4 |
| Released | 2025-03-17 | 2023-09-24 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 102K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.35 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.56 | — |
| Results tracked | 28 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Small 3.1 leads
Mistral Small 3.1: 38.3 (#179), Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#288)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1309 | 1071 |
Reasoning Too close to call
Mistral Small 3.1: 19.7 (#254), Qwen-14B: 19.6 (#257)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1278 | 1027 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.48 | 113.03 |
| Chess Puzzles | 1% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 55% |
| LAMBADA | — | 71.1% |
| PIQA | — | 79.9% |
Math Qwen-14B leads
Mistral Small 3.1: 14.7 (#301), Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#227)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1262 | 1068 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 3.9% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 24.8% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 61.3% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.1: 22.6 (#271), Qwen-14B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 41.9% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 61% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.2% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1257 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 84.4% |
| BoolQ | — | 86.2% |
| MMLU | — | 66.3% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.1: 33.2 (#99), Qwen-14B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1136 | — |
Multilingual Mistral Small 3.1 leads
Mistral Small 3.1: 41.2 (#209), Qwen-14B: 27.5 (#275)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1255 | 1041 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1253 | 1077 |
| LMArena French | 1273 | — |
| LMArena German | 1266 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1208 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1206 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1263 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1283 | — |
Instruction Following Mistral Small 3.1 leads
Mistral Small 3.1: 63.6 (#230), Qwen-14B: 52.4 (#289)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1264 | 1031 |
| IFEval | 75% | — |
Long Context Mistral Small 3.1 leads
Mistral Small 3.1: 39.5 (#178), Qwen-14B: 31.3 (#280)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1299 | 1028 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3.1 leads
Mistral Small 3.1: 37.0 (#259), Qwen-14B: 27.6 (#299)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1277 | 1051 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1253 | 1028 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1270 | 1022 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 761 | — |
| WildBench | 78.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Small 3.1 better than Qwen-14B?
Mistral Small 3.1 and Qwen-14B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.7 vs 31.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Mistral Small 3.1 or Qwen-14B better for coding?
Mistral Small 3.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.3 versus 31.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Small 3.1 and Qwen-14B share?
11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small 3.1 has 28 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-14B has 18.