Model comparison

Mistral Small 3.1 vs Qwen Turbo

Mistral Small 3.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index. Qwen Turbo costs 4.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Small 3.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 2 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Small 3.1

Mistral AI

31.4

Rank #263 Confirmed

Qwen Turbo

Alibaba (Qwen)

26.8

Rank #329 Reported

Summary

They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small 3.1 scores higher in 1 category and Qwen Turbo in 1 category, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
Qwen Turbo is cheaper at $0.05 / $0.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.35 / $0.56 for Mistral Small 3.1.
Qwen Turbo accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 128K.
Mistral Small 3.1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Mistral Small 3.1 and Qwen Turbo specifications
	Mistral Small 3.1	Qwen Turbo
Provider	Mistral AI	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	31.4	26.8
Released	2025-03-17	2024-11-01
Weights	Open	Proprietary
Context window	128K	1M
Max output	102K	16K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.35	$0.05
Output $ / M tokens	$0.56	$0.20
Results tracked	28	3

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.1: 37.7 (#175), Qwen Turbo: —

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.1	Qwen Turbo
LMArena Coding	1309	—

Reasoning Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.1: 18.9 (#249), Qwen Turbo: —

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.1	Qwen Turbo
Chess Puzzles	1%	—
LMArena Hard Prompts	1278	—
Epoch Capabilities Index	127.48	—

Math Too close to call

Mistral Small 3.1: 13.7 (#295), Qwen Turbo: 14.5 (#291)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.1	Qwen Turbo
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	3.9%	6.1%
Omni-MATH	24.8%	—
LMArena Math	1261	—
MATH Level 5	—	56.2%

Knowledge Too close to call

Mistral Small 3.1: 22.6 (#266), Qwen Turbo: 22.2 (#267)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.1	Qwen Turbo
GPQA Diamond	41.9%	41.8%
MMLU-Pro	61%	—
GPQA (HELM)	39.2%	—
LMArena Expert	1258	—

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.1: 32.6 (#93), Qwen Turbo: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.1	Qwen Turbo
LMArena Vision	1136	—

Multilingual Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.1: 41.4 (#204), Qwen Turbo: —

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.1	Qwen Turbo
LMArena Non-English	1255	—
LMArena Chinese	1254	—
LMArena French	1270	—
LMArena German	1266	—
LMArena Japanese	1210	—
LMArena Korean	1206	—
LMArena Russian	1263	—
LMArena Spanish	1283	—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.1: 63.8 (#225), Qwen Turbo: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.1	Qwen Turbo
IFEval	75%	—
LMArena Instruction Following	1264	—

Long Context Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.1: 39.5 (#172), Qwen Turbo: —

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.1	Qwen Turbo
LMArena Longer Query	1300	—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.1: 37.2 (#254), Qwen Turbo: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.1	Qwen Turbo
LMArena Text	1278	—
LMArena Creative Writing	1253	—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	761	—
WildBench	78.8%	—
LMArena Multi-Turn	1270	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Small 3.1 better than Qwen Turbo?

Which is cheaper, Mistral Small 3.1 or Qwen Turbo?

Qwen Turbo is cheaper. It lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens; Mistral Small 3.1 lists at $0.35 and $0.56.

Which has the bigger context window?

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

How many benchmarks do Mistral Small 3.1 and Qwen Turbo share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small 3.1 has 28 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Turbo has 3.