Noometry

Model comparison

Mistral Small vs Qwen3.7 Flash

Qwen3.7 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Small Mistral AI

33.4

Rank #243 Confirmed

Qwen3.7 Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

39.9

Rank #156 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.7 Flash in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.7 Flash leads 38.3 to 16.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 5.8% for Mistral Small and 86.7% for Qwen3.7 Flash.
  • Qwen3.7 Flash is cheaper at $0.03 / $0.13 per million input/output tokens, against $0.15 / $0.60 for Mistral Small.
  • Qwen3.7 Flash accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
  • Mistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Mistral SmallQwen3.7 Flash
ProviderMistral AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.439.9
Released2024-02-262026-07-15
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window262K1M
Max output256K131K
Input $ / M tokens$0.15$0.03
Output $ / M tokens$0.60$0.13
Results tracked397

Sponsored placements are available on pages like this one. Advertise on Noometry

Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247), Qwen3.7 Flash: —

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen3.7 Flash
SciCode26.5%—
BigCodeBench Instruct36.1%—
LiveBench Coding36.2%—
LMArena Coding1362—
BigCodeBench Complete46.6%—
ALE-Bench497.62—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93), Qwen3.7 Flash: —

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen3.7 Flash
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard37.1%—

Reasoning Qwen3.7 Flash leads

Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250), Qwen3.7 Flash: 28.2 (#108)

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen3.7 Flash
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)—43.8%
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles—23%
LiveBench Reasoning44.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1335—
Mystery Game Puzzles—15%
DTBench70.9%—
LiveBench Data Analysis53.7%—
LMCA20.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—144.64
LiveBench44%—

Math Qwen3.7 Flash leads

Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293), Qwen3.7 Flash: 38.3 (#140)

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen3.7 Flash
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20255.8%86.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—19.3%
LiveBench Math39.9%—
LMArena Math1341—
MATH Level 546.8%—

Knowledge Qwen3.7 Flash leads

Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222), Qwen3.7 Flash: 48.9 (#75)

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen3.7 Flash
GPQA Diamond47.5%82.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.1%—
LMArena Expert1291—
MMLU68.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96), Qwen3.7 Flash: —

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen3.7 Flash
LMArena Vision1142—

Multilingual Not comparable

Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169), Qwen3.7 Flash: —

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen3.7 Flash
LMArena Non-English1315—
LMArena Chinese1340—
LMArena French1337—
LMArena German1340—
LMArena Japanese1275—
LMArena Korean1259—
LMArena Russian1324—
LMArena Spanish1346—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209), Qwen3.7 Flash: —

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen3.7 Flash
LiveBench Instruction Following63.7%—
LMArena Instruction Following1310—

Long Context Not comparable

Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156), Qwen3.7 Flash: —

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen3.7 Flash
LMArena Longer Query1327—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171), Qwen3.7 Flash: —

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen3.7 Flash
LMArena Text1338—
LMArena Creative Writing1305—
LMArena Multi-Turn1344—
LiveBench Language30.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Small better than Qwen3.7 Flash?

Qwen3.7 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Mistral Small or Qwen3.7 Flash?

Qwen3.7 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.03 per million input tokens and $0.13 per million output tokens; Mistral Small lists at $0.15 and $0.60.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.7 Flash does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Small and Qwen3.7 Flash share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small has 39 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.7 Flash has 7.

Related comparisons

Go deeper