Model comparison

Mistral Small 3.1 vs Qwen3-1.7B

Mistral Small 3.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 3 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Small 3.1

Mistral AI

31.4

Rank #263 Confirmed

Qwen3-1.7B

Alibaba (Qwen)

26.2

Rank #331 Reported

Summary

They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small 3.1 scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen3-1.7B in 1 category; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.

Side by side

Mistral Small 3.1 and Qwen3-1.7B specifications
	Mistral Small 3.1	Qwen3-1.7B
Provider	Mistral AI	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	31.4	26.2
Released	2025-03-17	2025-04-29
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	128K	—
Max output	102K	—
Input $ / M tokens	$0.35	—
Output $ / M tokens	$0.56	—
Results tracked	28	4

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.1: 37.7 (#175), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.1	Qwen3-1.7B
LMArena Coding	1309	—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.1: —, Qwen3-1.7B: 24.5 (#108)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.1	Qwen3-1.7B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	—	28.4%

Reasoning Too close to call

Mistral Small 3.1: 18.9 (#249), Qwen3-1.7B: 18.5 (#263)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.1	Qwen3-1.7B
Chess Puzzles	1%	0%
LMArena Hard Prompts	1278	—
Epoch Capabilities Index	127.48	—

Math Qwen3-1.7B leads

Mistral Small 3.1: 13.7 (#295), Qwen3-1.7B: 15.4 (#288)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.1	Qwen3-1.7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	3.9%	8.1%
Omni-MATH	24.8%	—
LMArena Math	1261	—

Knowledge Mistral Small 3.1 leads

Mistral Small 3.1: 22.6 (#266), Qwen3-1.7B: 19.6 (#273)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.1	Qwen3-1.7B
GPQA Diamond	41.9%	38%
MMLU-Pro	61%	—
GPQA (HELM)	39.2%	—
LMArena Expert	1258	—

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.1: 32.6 (#93), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.1	Qwen3-1.7B
LMArena Vision	1136	—

Multilingual Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.1: 41.4 (#204), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.1	Qwen3-1.7B
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), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.1	Qwen3-1.7B
IFEval	75%	—
LMArena Instruction Following	1264	—

Long Context Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.1: 39.5 (#172), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.1	Qwen3-1.7B
LMArena Longer Query	1300	—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.1: 37.2 (#254), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.1	Qwen3-1.7B
LMArena Text	1278	—
LMArena Creative Writing	1253	—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	761	—
WildBench	78.8%	—
LMArena Multi-Turn	1270	—

Frequently asked questions

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