# Mistral 7B vs Qwen3 8B

> Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-7b-vs-qwen3-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 5

## Summary

- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral 7B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 8B in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3 8B leads 36.1 to 7.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 0.3% for Mistral 7B and 56.1% for Qwen3 8B.
- Mistral 7B is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $0.18 / $0.70 for Qwen3 8B.
- Qwen3 8B accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 8K.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral 7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 23.0 | 33.7 |
| Rank | 351 | 238 |
| Context | 8K | 131K |
| Input $/M | $0.25 | $0.18 |
| Output $/M | $0.25 | $0.70 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)
- Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 22.6% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 19.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1082 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 27.3% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 36% | — |
| MBPP+ | 42.1% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mistral 7B: —
- Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 42.6% |

## Reasoning

- Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)
- Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | 5% |
| DTBench | 42.5% | 59.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.21 | 136.17 |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1067 | — |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |
| Adversarial NLI | 47.1% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 56.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 81% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.3% | — |

## Math

- Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)
- Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0.3% | 56.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1085 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 3.7% | — |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)
- Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 15.2% | 56.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1036 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.6% | — |
| BoolQ | 87.4% | — |
| MMLU | 62.5% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 79.8% | — |
| TriviaQA | 75.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)
- Qwen3 8B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1012 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1009 | — |
| LMArena French | 1037 | — |
| LMArena German | 987 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 878 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1018 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1026 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)
- Qwen3 8B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1060 | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)
- Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.1% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1060 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)
- Qwen3 8B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1090 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1068 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1062 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral 7B better than Qwen3 8B?

Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Mistral 7B or Qwen3 8B?

Mistral 7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; Qwen3 8B lists at $0.18 and $0.70.

### Is Mistral 7B or Qwen3 8B better for coding?

Qwen3 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3 8B does, with 131K tokens against 8K.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral 7B and Qwen3 8B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral 7B has 37 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.