Model comparison

Mistral Small 3.2 vs Qwen2-72B

Mistral Small 3.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.2 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 12, 2026. 2 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Small 3.2

Mistral AI

31.2

Rank #280 Confirmed

Qwen2-72B

Alibaba (Qwen)

30.0

Rank #300 Confirmed

Summary

They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small 3.2 scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen2-72B in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in knowledge, where Mistral Small 3.2 leads 26.7 to 21.2.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 49.1% for Mistral Small 3.2 and 40.8% for Qwen2-72B.

Side by side

Mistral Small 3.2 and Qwen2-72B specifications
	Mistral Small 3.2	Qwen2-72B
Provider	Mistral AI	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	31.2	30.0
Released	2025-06-20	2024-06-07
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	256K	—
Max output	16K	—
Input $ / M tokens	$0.0938	—
Output $ / M tokens	$0.25	—
Results tracked	6	26

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.2: —, Qwen2-72B: 29.1 (#310)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.2	Qwen2-72B
WeirdML	—	11.3%
BigCodeBench Instruct	—	38.5%
LMArena Coding	—	1196
BigCodeBench Complete	—	54%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.2: —, Qwen2-72B: 17.0 (#146)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.2	Qwen2-72B
TheAgentCompany	—	1.1%
METR Time Horizons	—	29.9%

Reasoning Qwen2-72B leads

Mistral Small 3.2: 18.1 (#287), Qwen2-72B: 23.2 (#181)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.2	Qwen2-72B
Epoch Capabilities Index	131.74	125.28
Kagi LLM Benchmark	40.4%	—
Chess Puzzles	1%	—
LMArena Hard Prompts	—	1191

Math Qwen2-72B leads

Mistral Small 3.2: 26.3 (#260), Qwen2-72B: 30.2 (#236)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.2	Qwen2-72B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	30.3%	—
LMArena Math	—	1235
MATH Level 5	—	39.1%

Knowledge Mistral Small 3.2 leads

Mistral Small 3.2: 26.7 (#256), Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#275)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.2	Qwen2-72B
GPQA Diamond	49.1%	40.8%
LMArena Expert	—	1171
MMLU	—	82.4%

Multilingual Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.2: —, Qwen2-72B: 35.9 (#244)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.2	Qwen2-72B
LMArena Non-English	—	1176
LMArena Chinese	—	1240
LMArena French	—	1170
LMArena German	—	1151
LMArena Japanese	—	1111
LMArena Korean	—	1083
LMArena Russian	—	1169
LMArena Spanish	—	1169

Instruction Following Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.2: —, Qwen2-72B: 61.7 (#241)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.2	Qwen2-72B
LMArena Instruction Following	—	1181

Long Context Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.2: —, Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#235)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.2	Qwen2-72B
LMArena Longer Query	—	1192

Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3.2 leads

Mistral Small 3.2: 45.0 (#224), Qwen2-72B: 40.8 (#241)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.2	Qwen2-72B
LMArena Text	—	1203
LMArena Creative Writing	—	1181
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	1255	—
LMArena Multi-Turn	—	1196

Frequently asked questions

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