Model comparison

Mistral Small 3.2 vs Qwen1.5-7B

Mistral Small 3.2 and Qwen1.5-7B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.2 vs 31.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

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Mistral Small 3.2 Mistral AI

31.2

Rank #280 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-7B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.4

Rank #273 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Small 3.2 leads 45.0 to 29.6.

Side by side

Mistral Small 3.2 and Qwen1.5-7B specifications
Mistral Small 3.2Qwen1.5-7B
ProviderMistral AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index31.231.4
Released2025-06-202024-02-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window256K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.0938—
Output $ / M tokens$0.25—
Results tracked613

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.2: —, Qwen1.5-7B: 32.2 (#276)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Coding—1107

Reasoning Qwen1.5-7B leads

Mistral Small 3.2: 18.1 (#287), Qwen1.5-7B: 20.4 (#240)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2Qwen1.5-7B
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.4%—
Chess Puzzles1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1065
Epoch Capabilities Index131.74—

Math Qwen1.5-7B leads

Mistral Small 3.2: 26.3 (#260), Qwen1.5-7B: 31.4 (#224)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2Qwen1.5-7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202530.3%—
LMArena Math—1080

Knowledge Qwen1.5-7B leads

Mistral Small 3.2: 26.7 (#256), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.7 (#243)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2Qwen1.5-7B
GPQA Diamond49.1%—
LMArena Expert—1055
MMLU—62.6%

Multilingual Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.2: —, Qwen1.5-7B: 28.5 (#271)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Non-English—1058
LMArena Chinese—1141
LMArena Russian—1006

Instruction Following Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.2: —, Qwen1.5-7B: 54.1 (#281)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Instruction Following—1058

Long Context Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.2: —, Qwen1.5-7B: 33.1 (#266)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Longer Query—1090

Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3.2 leads

Mistral Small 3.2: 45.0 (#224), Qwen1.5-7B: 29.6 (#293)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Text—1083
LMArena Creative Writing—1035
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1255—
LMArena Multi-Turn—1062

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Small 3.2 better than Qwen1.5-7B?

Mistral Small 3.2 and Qwen1.5-7B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.2 vs 31.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Small 3.2 and Qwen1.5-7B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small 3.2 has 6 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-7B has 13.

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