Model comparison

Mistral Small 3.2 vs Qwen1.5-32B

Mistral Small 3.2 and Qwen1.5-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Small 3.2 Mistral AI

30.8

Rank #271 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.0

Rank #288 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Mistral Small 3.2 scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen1.5-32B in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Mistral Small 3.2 leads 26.8 to 13.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 49.1% for Mistral Small 3.2 and 30.7% for Qwen1.5-32B.

Side by side

Mistral Small 3.2 and Qwen1.5-32B specifications
Mistral Small 3.2Qwen1.5-32B
ProviderMistral AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.830.0
Released2025-06-202024-02-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window256K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.0938—
Output $ / M tokens$0.25—
Results tracked621

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.2: —, Qwen1.5-32B: 31.1 (#278)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2Qwen1.5-32B
BigCodeBench Instruct—32.3%
LMArena Coding—1155
BigCodeBench Complete—42%

Reasoning Qwen1.5-32B leads

Mistral Small 3.2: 17.5 (#282), Qwen1.5-32B: 20.9 (#210)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2Qwen1.5-32B
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.4%—
Chess Puzzles1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1131
Epoch Capabilities Index131.73—

Math Qwen1.5-32B leads

Mistral Small 3.2: 24.9 (#251), Qwen1.5-32B: 30.5 (#207)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2Qwen1.5-32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202530.3%—
LMArena Math—1155

Knowledge Mistral Small 3.2 leads

Mistral Small 3.2: 26.8 (#249), Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#291)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2Qwen1.5-32B
GPQA Diamond49.1%30.7%
LMArena Expert—1126
MMLU—74.4%

Multilingual Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.2: —, Qwen1.5-32B: 31.6 (#254)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Non-English—1106
LMArena Chinese—1176
LMArena French—1100
LMArena German—1058
LMArena Japanese—1027
LMArena Korean—1007
LMArena Russian—1073
LMArena Spanish—1089

Instruction Following Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.2: —, Qwen1.5-32B: 58.0 (#260)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Instruction Following—1116

Long Context Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.2: —, Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#241)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Longer Query—1146

Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3.2 leads

Mistral Small 3.2: 45.1 (#219), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.4 (#266)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Text—1137
LMArena Creative Writing—1083
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1255—
LMArena Multi-Turn—1140

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Small 3.2 better than Qwen1.5-32B?

Mistral Small 3.2 and Qwen1.5-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Small 3.2 and Qwen1.5-32B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Mistral Small 3.2 has 6 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-32B has 21.

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