Model comparison
Mistral Small 3 vs Qwen3-4B
Mistral Small 3 and Qwen3-4B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.2 vs 31.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small 3 scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-4B in 3 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3-4B leads 29.7 to 16.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 6.7% for Mistral Small 3 and 52.2% for Qwen3-4B.
Side by side
| Mistral Small 3 | Qwen3-4B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.2 | 31.9 |
| Released | 2025-01-30 | 2025-04-29 |
| 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: 36.5 (#207), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.3% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1246 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 50.4% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral Small 3: —, Qwen3-4B: 27.6 (#100)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 35.7% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Mistral Small 3: 18.9 (#273), Qwen3-4B: 19.2 (#268)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | 4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1233 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.07 | — |
Math Qwen3-4B leads
Mistral Small 3: 16.3 (#295), Qwen3-4B: 29.7 (#240)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 6.7% | 52.2% |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 38.5% |
| LMArena Math | 1240 | — |
Knowledge Qwen3-4B leads
Mistral Small 3: 25.1 (#263), Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#208)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | 52.3% |
| Confabulations | 25.2% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1202 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral Small 3: 37.3 (#236), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1198 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1204 | — |
| LMArena French | 1203 | — |
| LMArena German | 1211 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1111 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1188 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mistral Small 3: 63.7 (#229), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1214 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral Small 3: 37.8 (#211), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1246 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mistral Small 3: 32.2 (#280), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Qwen3-4B?
Mistral Small 3 and Qwen3-4B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.2 vs 31.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Small 3 and Qwen3-4B share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small 3 has 24 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.