# Mistral 7B vs Qwen-14B

> Qwen-14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-7b-vs-qwen-14b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral 7B scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen-14B in 4 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen-14B leads 31.2 to 8.1.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral 7B | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 23.0 | 31.4 |
| Rank | 351 | 275 |
| Context | 8K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.25 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.25 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)
- Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#288)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1082 | 1071 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 19.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 27.3% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 36% | — |
| MBPP+ | 42.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)
- Qwen-14B: 19.6 (#257)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1067 | 1027 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 56.1% | 55% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.21 | 113.03 |
| PIQA | 83% | 79.9% |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| DTBench | 42.5% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | 47.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 81% | — |
| LAMBADA | — | 71.1% |
| WinoGrande | 75.3% | — |

## Math

- Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)
- Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#227)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1085 | 1068 |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | 61.3% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 3.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)
- Qwen-14B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.6% | 84.4% |
| BoolQ | 87.4% | 86.2% |
| MMLU | 62.5% | 66.3% |
| GPQA Diamond | 15.2% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1036 | — |
| OpenBookQA | 79.8% | — |
| TriviaQA | 75.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)
- Qwen-14B: 27.5 (#275)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1012 | 1041 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1009 | 1077 |
| LMArena French | 1037 | — |
| LMArena German | 987 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 878 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1018 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1026 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)
- Qwen-14B: 52.4 (#289)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1060 | 1031 |

## Long Context

- Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)
- Qwen-14B: 31.3 (#280)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1060 | 1028 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)
- Qwen-14B: 27.6 (#299)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1090 | 1051 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1068 | 1028 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1062 | 1022 |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral 7B better than Qwen-14B?

Qwen-14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Mistral 7B or Qwen-14B better for coding?

Qwen-14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.2 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral 7B and Qwen-14B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral 7B has 37 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-14B has 18.