Model comparison
Mistral Small 3.1 vs Qwen3-4B
Mistral Small 3.1 and Qwen3-4B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.7 vs 31.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small 3.1 scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-4B in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3-4B leads 29.7 to 14.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 3.9% for Mistral Small 3.1 and 52.2% for Qwen3-4B.
Side by side
| Mistral Small 3.1 | Qwen3-4B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.7 | 31.9 |
| 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 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.1: 38.3 (#179), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1309 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.1: —, Qwen3-4B: 27.6 (#100)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 35.7% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Mistral Small 3.1: 19.7 (#254), Qwen3-4B: 19.2 (#268)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 1% | 4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1278 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.48 | — |
Math Qwen3-4B leads
Mistral Small 3.1: 14.7 (#301), Qwen3-4B: 29.7 (#240)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 3.9% | 52.2% |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 38.5% |
| Omni-MATH | 24.8% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1262 | — |
Knowledge Qwen3-4B leads
Mistral Small 3.1: 22.6 (#271), Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#208)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 41.9% | 52.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 61% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.2% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1257 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.1: 33.2 (#99), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1136 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.1: 41.2 (#209), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1255 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1253 | — |
| LMArena French | 1273 | — |
| LMArena German | 1266 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1208 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1206 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1263 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1283 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.1: 63.6 (#230), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 75% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1264 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.1: 39.5 (#178), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1299 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.1: 37.0 (#259), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1277 | — |
| 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 Qwen3-4B?
Mistral Small 3.1 and Qwen3-4B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.7 vs 31.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Small 3.1 and Qwen3-4B share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small 3.1 has 28 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.