# Mistral 7B vs Qwen1.5-72B

> Qwen1.5-72B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-7b-vs-qwen1-5-72b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 21

## Summary

- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral 7B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen1.5-72B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen1.5-72B leads 33.2 to 8.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Instruct: 19.5% for Mistral 7B and 33.2% for Qwen1.5-72B.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral 7B | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 23.0 | 30.8 |
| Rank | 351 | 285 |
| Context | 8K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.25 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.25 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 31.9 (#277)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 19.5% | 33.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1082 | 1165 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 27.3% | 40.3% |
| HumanEval+ | 36% | 59.1% |
| MBPP+ | 42.1% | 61.6% |

## Reasoning

- Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 22.2 (#203)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1067 | 1148 |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| DTBench | 42.5% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | 47.1% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 56.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.21 | — |
| HellaSwag | 81% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.3% | — |

## Math

- Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#205)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1085 | 1164 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 3.7% | — |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#300)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 15.2% | 28.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1036 | 1136 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.6% | — |
| BoolQ | 87.4% | — |
| MMLU | 62.5% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 79.8% | — |
| TriviaQA | 75.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#253)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1012 | 1135 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1009 | 1186 |
| LMArena French | 1037 | 1159 |
| LMArena German | 987 | 1084 |
| LMArena Japanese | 878 | 1061 |
| LMArena Russian | 1018 | 1104 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1026 | 1110 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1050 |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 59.3 (#256)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1060 | 1141 |

## Long Context

- Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 35.1 (#243)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1060 | 1157 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 37.3 (#258)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1090 | 1166 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1068 | 1137 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1062 | 1160 |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral 7B better than Qwen1.5-72B?

Qwen1.5-72B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Mistral 7B or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?

Qwen1.5-72B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.9 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral 7B and Qwen1.5-72B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral 7B has 37 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.