Model comparison
Mistral Small vs Qwen2.5 Plus 1127
Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 leads 36.1 to 16.4.
- Mistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mistral Small | Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 33.4 | 38.8 |
| Released | 2024-02-26 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 262K | — |
| Max output | 256K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.15 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.60 | — |
| Results tracked | 39 | 14 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 leads
Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 38.5 (#175)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1362 | 1314 |
| SciCode | 26.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 36.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 36.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 46.6% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 497.62 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.1% | — |
Reasoning Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 leads
Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 25.9 (#141)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1335 | 1299 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 44.8% | — |
| DTBench | 70.9% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 53.7% | — |
| LMCA | 20.6% | — |
| LiveBench | 44% | — |
Math Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 leads
Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 36.1 (#174)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1341 | 1298 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 5.8% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 39.9% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.8% | — |
Knowledge Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 leads
Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 35.5 (#183)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1291 | 1289 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
| MMLU | 68.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1142 | — |
Multilingual Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 41.9 (#201)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1315 | 1265 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1340 | 1314 |
| LMArena German | 1340 | 1231 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1275 | 1207 |
| LMArena Russian | 1324 | 1271 |
| LMArena French | 1337 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1259 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1346 | — |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 67.2 (#199)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1310 | 1275 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.7% | — |
Long Context Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 39.2 (#184)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1327 | 1292 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 49.4 (#192)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1338 | 1299 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1305 | 1262 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1344 | 1299 |
| LiveBench Language | 30.5% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Small better than Qwen2.5 Plus 1127?
Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Mistral Small or Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 better for coding?
Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.5 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Small and Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small has 39 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 has 14.