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Model comparison

Mistral Small vs Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.2 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Small costs 4.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Small Mistral AI

33.4

Rank #243 Confirmed

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Alibaba (Qwen)

43.2

Rank #95 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads 39.0 to 16.4.
  • Mistral Small is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.60 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $2.80 for Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B.
  • Mistral Small accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

Mistral SmallQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
ProviderMistral AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.443.2
Released2024-02-262025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K131K
Max output256K33K
Input $ / M tokens$0.15$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$0.60$2.80
Results tracked3918

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 42.4 (#100)

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Coding13621439
SciCode26.5%—
BigCodeBench Instruct36.1%—
LiveBench Coding36.2%—
BigCodeBench Complete46.6%—
ALE-Bench497.62—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: —

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard37.1%—

Reasoning Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 29.3 (#92)

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Hard Prompts13351428
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.8%—
CritPt0%—
LiveBench Reasoning44.8%—
DTBench70.9%—
LiveBench Data Analysis53.7%—
LMCA20.6%—
LiveBench44%—

Math Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 39.0 (#118)

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Math13411426
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20255.8%—
LiveBench Math39.9%—
MATH Level 546.8%—

Knowledge Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 40.3 (#121)

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Expert12911442
GPQA Diamond47.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.1%—
MMLU68.7%—

Multimodal Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 39.8 (#55)

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Vision11421247

Multilingual Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 51.9 (#97)

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Non-English13151405
LMArena Chinese13401463
LMArena French13371452
LMArena German13401424
LMArena Japanese12751385
LMArena Korean12591394
LMArena Russian13241408
LMArena Spanish13461428

Instruction Following Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 74.2 (#101)

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Instruction Following13101406
LiveBench Instruction Following63.7%—

Long Context Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 43.4 (#98)

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Longer Query13271420

Writing & Preference Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 60.2 (#99)

BenchmarkMistral SmallQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Text13381420
LMArena Creative Writing13051366
LMArena Multi-Turn13441428
LiveBench Language30.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Small better than Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B?

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.2 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Small costs 4.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Mistral Small or Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B?

Mistral Small is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B lists at $0.70 and $2.80.

Is Mistral Small or Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B better for coding?

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Small does, with 262K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Small and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small has 39 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B has 18.

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