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Model comparison

Mistral Small vs Qwen2-72B

Mistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.1 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Small Mistral AI

33.1

Rank #238 Confirmed

Qwen2-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

29.5

Rank #294 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen2-72B in 2 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen2-72B leads 27.9 to 15.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 46.8% for Mistral Small and 39.1% for Qwen2-72B.

Side by side

Mistral SmallQwen2-72B
ProviderMistral AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.129.5
Released2024-02-262024-06-07
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window256K—
Max output256K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.15—
Output $ / M tokens$0.60—
Results tracked3926

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Category by category

Coding Mistral Small leads

Mistral Small: 33.5 (#242), Qwen2-72B: 28.7 (#303)

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen2-72B
BigCodeBench Instruct36.1%38.5%
LMArena Coding13631196
BigCodeBench Complete46.6%54%
SciCode26.5%—
WeirdML—11.3%
LiveBench Coding36.2%—
ALE-Bench497.62—

Agentic & Tool Use Mistral Small leads

Mistral Small: 27.9 (#87), Qwen2-72B: 16.9 (#138)

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen2-72B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard37.1%—
TheAgentCompany—1.1%
METR Time Horizons—29.9%

Reasoning Qwen2-72B leads

Mistral Small: 19.3 (#238), Qwen2-72B: 22.2 (#184)

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen2-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts13361191
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.8%—
CritPt0%—
LiveBench Reasoning44.8%—
DTBench70.9%—
LiveBench Data Analysis53.7%—
LMCA20.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—125.27
LiveBench44%—

Math Qwen2-72B leads

Mistral Small: 15.4 (#287), Qwen2-72B: 27.9 (#232)

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen2-72B
LMArena Math13411235
MATH Level 546.8%39.1%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20255.8%—
LiveBench Math39.9%—

Knowledge Mistral Small leads

Mistral Small: 30.9 (#214), Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#270)

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen2-72B
GPQA Diamond47.5%40.8%
LMArena Expert12931171
MMLU68.7%82.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.1%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral Small: 32.9 (#91), Qwen2-72B: —

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen2-72B
LMArena Vision1142—

Multilingual Mistral Small leads

Mistral Small: 45.7 (#164), Qwen2-72B: 36.0 (#239)

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen2-72B
LMArena Non-English13151176
LMArena Chinese13421240
LMArena French13371169
LMArena German13411151
LMArena Japanese12751111
LMArena Korean12601083
LMArena Russian13241169
LMArena Spanish13461168

Instruction Following Mistral Small leads

Mistral Small: 66.6 (#204), Qwen2-72B: 62.0 (#236)

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen2-72B
LMArena Instruction Following13101181
LiveBench Instruction Following63.7%—

Long Context Mistral Small leads

Mistral Small: 40.4 (#151), Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#230)

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen2-72B
LMArena Longer Query13271193

Writing & Preference Mistral Small leads

Mistral Small: 52.6 (#165), Qwen2-72B: 41.0 (#236)

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen2-72B
LMArena Text13381203
LMArena Creative Writing13041181
LMArena Multi-Turn13441195
LiveBench Language30.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Small better than Qwen2-72B?

Mistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.1 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Mistral Small or Qwen2-72B better for coding?

Mistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.5 versus 28.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Small and Qwen2-72B share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small has 39 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.

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