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Mistral Small vs Qwen3-30B-A3B

Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Small Mistral AI

33.4

Rank #243 Confirmed

Qwen3-30B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

38.9

Rank #179 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-30B-A3B in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3-30B-A3B leads 37.4 to 16.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 5.8% for Mistral Small and 70.3% for Qwen3-30B-A3B.
  • Qwen3-30B-A3B is cheaper at $0.12 / $0.50 per million input/output tokens, against $0.15 / $0.60 for Mistral Small.
  • Mistral Small accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 41K.

Side by side

Mistral SmallQwen3-30B-A3B
ProviderMistral AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.438.9
Released2024-02-262025-04-28
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K41K
Max output256K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.15$0.12
Output $ / M tokens$0.60$0.50
Results tracked3932

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.5 (#194)

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen3-30B-A3B
SciCode26.5%33.3%
LMArena Coding13621416
WeirdML—29.8%
BigCodeBench Instruct36.1%—
LiveBench Coding36.2%—
BigCodeBench Complete46.6%—
ALE-Bench497.62—

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.8 (#82)

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen3-30B-A3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard37.1%41.4%

Reasoning Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 22.2 (#204)

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen3-30B-A3B
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.8%54.9%
CritPt0%0.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts13351398
DTBench70.9%69.3%
LMCA20.6%22.4%
Chess Puzzles—8%
LiveBench Reasoning44.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis53.7%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—139.63
LiveBench44%—

Math Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.4 (#157)

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen3-30B-A3B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20255.8%70.3%
LMArena Math13411394
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—47.8%
LiveBench Math39.9%—
MATH Level 546.8%—

Knowledge Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.8 (#105)

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen3-30B-A3B
GPQA Diamond47.5%70.1%
LMArena Expert12911396
Confabulations—12.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.1%—
MMLU68.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96), Qwen3-30B-A3B: —

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Vision1142—

Multilingual Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.5 (#132)

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Non-English13151372
LMArena Chinese13401433
LMArena French13371418
LMArena German13401380
LMArena Japanese12751337
LMArena Korean12591331
LMArena Russian13241370
LMArena Spanish13461404

Instruction Following Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.0 (#142)

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following13101363
LiveBench Instruction Following63.7%—

Long Context Mistral Small leads

Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#283)

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query13271379
Fiction.LiveBench—40.6%

Writing & Preference Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.6 (#143)

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Text13381384
LMArena Creative Writing13051317
LMArena Multi-Turn13441378
Short-Story Creative Writing—75.3%
LiveBench Language30.5%—

Frequently asked questions

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

Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

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

Qwen3-30B-A3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.12 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens; Mistral Small lists at $0.15 and $0.60.

Is Mistral Small or Qwen3-30B-A3B better for coding?

Qwen3-30B-A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.5 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Small does, with 262K tokens against 41K.

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

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small has 39 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32.

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