Model comparison
Mistral Small 3.2 vs Qwen-14B
Mistral Small 3.2 and Qwen-14B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 30.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Mistral Small 3.2 scores higher in 1 category and Qwen-14B in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Small 3.2 leads 45.1 to 27.8.
Side by side
| Mistral Small 3.2 | Qwen-14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | 30.8 |
| Released | 2025-06-20 | 2023-09-24 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 256K | — |
| Max output | 16K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.0938 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.25 | — |
| Results tracked | 6 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.2: —, Qwen-14B: 30.6 (#283)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1072 |
Reasoning Qwen-14B leads
Mistral Small 3.2: 17.5 (#282), Qwen-14B: 18.7 (#255)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 131.73 | 112.8 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 40.4% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1027 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 55% |
| LAMBADA | — | 71.1% |
| PIQA | — | 79.9% |
Math Qwen-14B leads
Mistral Small 3.2: 24.9 (#251), Qwen-14B: 28.7 (#224)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 30.3% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1068 |
| GSM8K | — | 61.3% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.2: 26.8 (#249), Qwen-14B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 49.1% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 84.4% |
| BoolQ | — | 86.2% |
| MMLU | — | 66.3% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.2: —, Qwen-14B: 27.7 (#270)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1042 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1077 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.2: —, Qwen-14B: 52.6 (#284)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1031 |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.2: —, Qwen-14B: 31.3 (#276)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1029 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3.2 leads
Mistral Small 3.2: 45.1 (#219), Qwen-14B: 27.8 (#294)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1051 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1028 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1255 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1022 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Small 3.2 better than Qwen-14B?
Mistral Small 3.2 and Qwen-14B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 30.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Small 3.2 and Qwen-14B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Mistral Small 3.2 has 6 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-14B has 18.