# Mistral 7B vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

> Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.6 to 22.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-7b-vs-qwen2-5-7b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 8

## Summary

- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral 7B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads 48.8 to 30.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 15.2% for Mistral 7B and 35.5% for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct.
- Mistral 7B is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $0.17 / $0.70 for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct.
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 8K.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral 7B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 22.9 | 28.6 |
| Rank | 346 | 314 |
| Context | 8K | 131K |
| Input $/M | $0.25 | $0.17 |
| Output $/M | $0.25 | $0.70 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral 7B: 25.9 (#321)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 35.9 (#204)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 19.5% | 37.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 27.3% | 46.1% |
| LMArena Coding | 1082 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 36% | — |
| MBPP+ | 42.1% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mistral 7B: —
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.5 (#117)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 7.8% |

## Reasoning

- Mistral 7B: 12.6 (#331)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.3 (#317)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | 0% |
| DTBench | 42.5% | 47.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.97 | 118.44 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1067 | — |
| LMCA | — | 6.4% |
| Adversarial NLI | 47.1% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 56.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 81% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.3% | — |

## Math

- Mistral 7B: 7.6 (#319)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 11.8 (#300)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0.3% | 2.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 29.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1085 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 3.7% | — |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mistral 7B: 7.3 (#306)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#281)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 15.2% | 35.5% |
| MMLU | 62.5% | 72.9% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 53.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 34.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1036 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.6% | — |
| BoolQ | 87.4% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 79.8% | — |
| TriviaQA | 75.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral 7B: 26.0 (#278)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1012 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1009 | — |
| LMArena French | 1036 | — |
| LMArena German | 987 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 878 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1018 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1026 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral 7B: 54.5 (#275)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.4 (#226)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 74.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1060 | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#266)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1060 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral 7B: 30.9 (#281)
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#194)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1090 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1068 | — |
| WildBench | — | 73.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1062 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral 7B better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.6 to 22.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Mistral 7B or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Mistral 7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5 7B Instruct lists at $0.17 and $0.70.

### Is Mistral 7B or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 versus 25.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct does, with 131K tokens against 8K.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral 7B and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral 7B has 37 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.