Model comparison
Mistral Small vs Qwen3 Coder Next
Mistral Small and Qwen3 Coder Next score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.4 vs 34.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 Coder Next in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 26.5% for Mistral Small and 32.3% for Qwen3 Coder Next.
- Mistral Small is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.60 per million input/output tokens, against $0.12 / $0.80 for Qwen3 Coder Next.
Side by side
| Mistral Small | Qwen3 Coder Next | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 33.4 | 34.3 |
| Released | 2024-02-26 | 2026-02-02 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | 262K |
| Max output | 256K | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.15 | $0.12 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.60 | $0.80 |
| Results tracked | 39 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3 Coder Next leads
Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247), Qwen3 Coder Next: 36.3 (#210)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 26.5% | 32.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 34.4% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 36.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 36.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1362 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 46.6% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 497.62 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.1% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3 Coder Next leads
Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250), Qwen3 Coder Next: 22.4 (#196)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0% | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 44.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1335 | — |
| DTBench | 70.9% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 53.7% | — |
| LMCA | 20.6% | — |
| LiveBench | 44% | — |
Math Not comparable
Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 5.8% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 39.9% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1341 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.8% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1291 | — |
| MMLU | 68.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1142 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1315 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1340 | — |
| LMArena French | 1337 | — |
| LMArena German | 1340 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1275 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1259 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1324 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1346 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.7% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1310 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1327 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1338 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1305 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1344 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 30.5% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Small better than Qwen3 Coder Next?
Mistral Small and Qwen3 Coder Next score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.4 vs 34.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Mistral Small or Qwen3 Coder Next?
Mistral Small is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; Qwen3 Coder Next lists at $0.12 and $0.80.
Is Mistral Small or Qwen3 Coder Next better for coding?
Qwen3 Coder Next scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.3 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 262K tokens.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Small and Qwen3 Coder Next share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small has 39 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Coder Next has 3.