Model comparison

Mistral vs Qwen3.5 122B-A10B

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Mistral AI

29.9

Rank #303 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B Alibaba (Qwen)

42.1

Rank #119 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads 60.0 to 37.0.
  • Qwen3.5 122B-A10B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Mistral and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B specifications
MistralQwen3.5 122B-A10B
ProviderMistral AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.942.1
Released—2026-02-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$3.20
Results tracked2227

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Mistral: 33.8 (#250), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 39.1 (#162)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMistralQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Coding11621436
LMArena WebDev—1360
SciCode—35.6%

Reasoning Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Mistral: 22.2 (#200), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 27.2 (#123)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMistralQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Hard Prompts11491421
NYT Connections (extended)—51.7%
CritPt—0.9%
Thematic Generalization—51.2%
Mystery Game Puzzles—17%
DTBench—84.3%
LMCA—32.2%

Math Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Mistral: 22.3 (#278), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 39.1 (#112)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMistralQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Math11801432
Omni-MATH7.2%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Mistral: 16.6 (#288), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 38.8 (#142)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMistralQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Expert11251432
MMLU-Pro27.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—11.2%
GPQA (HELM)30.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral: —, Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 39.6 (#57)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkMistralQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Vision—1245

Multilingual Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Mistral: 32.8 (#254), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 51.6 (#107)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMistralQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Non-English11291400
LMArena Chinese11091462
LMArena French11801442
LMArena German11551426
LMArena Japanese10131367
LMArena Korean10321352
LMArena Russian11681400
LMArena Spanish11431424

Instruction Following Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Mistral: 52.6 (#288), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 73.8 (#115)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMistralQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Instruction Following11521399
IFEval56.8%—

Long Context Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Mistral: 35.0 (#245), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 43.0 (#109)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMistralQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Longer Query11531410

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Mistral: 37.0 (#260), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 60.0 (#105)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMistralQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Text11651417
LMArena Creative Writing11581368
LMArena Multi-Turn11471416
WildBench66%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral better than Qwen3.5 122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Mistral or Qwen3.5 122B-A10B better for coding?

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Mistral and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral has 22 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B has 27.

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