Model comparison

Mistral Small 3.2 vs Qwen3-30B-A3B

Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Small 3.2 costs 1.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3-30B-A3B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 5 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Small 3.2

Mistral AI

30.8

Rank #271 Confirmed

Qwen3-30B-A3B

Alibaba (Qwen)

38.5

Rank #174 Confirmed

Summary

They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small 3.2 scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-30B-A3B in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3-30B-A3B leads 41.7 to 26.8.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 30.3% for Mistral Small 3.2 and 70.3% for Qwen3-30B-A3B.
Mistral Small 3.2 is cheaper at $0.0938 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $0.12 / $0.50 for Qwen3-30B-A3B.
Mistral Small 3.2 accepts more context: 256K tokens versus 41K.

Side by side

Mistral Small 3.2 and Qwen3-30B-A3B specifications
	Mistral Small 3.2	Qwen3-30B-A3B
Provider	Mistral AI	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	30.8	38.5
Released	2025-06-20	2025-04-28
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	256K	41K
Max output	16K	16K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.0938	$0.12
Output $ / M tokens	$0.25	$0.50
Results tracked	6	32

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.2: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.0 (#188)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.2	Qwen3-30B-A3B
SciCode	—	33.3%
WeirdML	—	29.8%
LMArena Coding	—	1416

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.2: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.5 (#75)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.2	Qwen3-30B-A3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	—	41.4%

Reasoning Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Mistral Small 3.2: 17.5 (#282), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 21.6 (#193)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.2	Qwen3-30B-A3B
Kagi LLM Benchmark	40.4%	54.9%
Chess Puzzles	1%	8%
Epoch Capabilities Index	131.73	139.63
CritPt	—	0.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts	—	1398
DTBench	—	69.3%
LMCA	—	22.4%

Math Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Mistral Small 3.2: 24.9 (#251), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 36.0 (#133)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.2	Qwen3-30B-A3B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	30.3%	70.3%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions	—	47.8%
LMArena Math	—	1394

Knowledge Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Mistral Small 3.2: 26.8 (#249), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.7 (#96)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.2	Qwen3-30B-A3B
GPQA Diamond	49.1%	70.1%
Confabulations	—	12.3%
LMArena Expert	—	1395

Multilingual Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.2: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.8 (#126)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.2	Qwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Non-English	—	1372
LMArena Chinese	—	1434
LMArena French	—	1419
LMArena German	—	1379
LMArena Japanese	—	1338
LMArena Korean	—	1333
LMArena Russian	—	1369
LMArena Spanish	—	1403

Instruction Following Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.2: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.2 (#137)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.2	Qwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following	—	1364

Long Context Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.2: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#278)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.2	Qwen3-30B-A3B
Fiction.LiveBench	—	40.6%
LMArena Longer Query	—	1379

Writing & Preference Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Mistral Small 3.2: 45.1 (#219), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.9 (#138)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Small 3.2	Qwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Text	—	1384
LMArena Creative Writing	—	1318
Short-Story Creative Writing	—	75.3%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	1255	—
LMArena Multi-Turn	—	1378

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Small 3.2 better than Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Which is cheaper, Mistral Small 3.2 or Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Mistral Small 3.2 is cheaper. It lists at $0.0938 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; Qwen3-30B-A3B lists at $0.12 and $0.50.

Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Small 3.2 does, with 256K tokens against 41K.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Small 3.2 and Qwen3-30B-A3B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small 3.2 has 6 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32.