Model comparison
Mistral Small 3 vs Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
Mistral Small 3 has enough public results to be ranked (#268); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
Side by side
| Mistral Small 3 | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.9 | — |
| Released | 2025-01-30 | 2024-09-18 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 33K | — |
| Max output | 16K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.05 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.08 | — |
| Results tracked | 24 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mistral Small 3: 36.0 (#203), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.3% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1246 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 50.4% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Mistral Small 3: 18.2 (#269), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.06 | 112.93 |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1233 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 76.8% |
| WinoGrande | — | 72.9% |
Math Not comparable
Mistral Small 3: 15.3 (#290), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 6.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1240 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 86.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mistral Small 3: 25.0 (#258), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 25.2% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1202 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 60.9% |
| MMLU | — | 68% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral Small 3: 37.5 (#231), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1198 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1204 | — |
| LMArena French | 1202 | — |
| LMArena German | 1211 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1111 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1188 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mistral Small 3: 63.9 (#224), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1214 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral Small 3: 37.8 (#206), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1246 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mistral Small 3: 32.4 (#275), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1234 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1195 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 707 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1217 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Small 3 better than Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)?
Mistral Small 3 has enough public results to be ranked (#268); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Small 3 and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Mistral Small 3 has 24 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has 6.