# Mistral Large 3 vs Qwen3 32B

> Mistral Large 3 and Qwen3 32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.6 vs 38.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-large-3-vs-qwen3-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 15

## Summary

- They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Large 3 scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3 32B in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Large 3 leads 60.2 to 53.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Vectara Hallucination Rate: 14.5% for Mistral Large 3 and 5.9% for Qwen3 32B.
- Mistral Large 3 is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.75 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $2.80 for Qwen3 32B.
- Mistral Large 3 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Large 3 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 38.6 | 38.8 |
| Rank | 172 | 166 |
| Context | 262K | 131K |
| Input $/M | $0.25 | $0.70 |
| Output $/M | $0.75 | $2.80 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral Large 3: 34.1 (#230)
- Qwen3 32B: 37.3 (#184)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1447 | 1358 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 40% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1230 | — |
| SciCode | — | 35.4% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mistral Large 3: —
- Qwen3 32B: 32.3 (#58)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 48.7% |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Large 3: 14.6 (#314)
- Qwen3 32B: 19.6 (#233)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 50.9% | 54.9% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1429 | 1335 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 7.5% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| Thematic Generalization | 23% | — |
| DTBench | — | 67.5% |
| LMCA | — | 17.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 138.51 |

## Math

- Mistral Large 3: 36.0 (#131)
- Qwen3 32B: 37.9 (#89)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1415 | 1399 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 66.9% |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Large 3: 35.5 (#173)
- Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#112)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 14.5% | 5.9% |
| LMArena Expert | 1421 | 1362 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 65.7% |

## Multimodal

- Mistral Large 3: 37.6 (#65)
- Qwen3 32B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1222 | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Large 3: 52.6 (#79)
- Qwen3 32B: 45.8 (#162)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1412 | 1317 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1448 | 1357 |
| LMArena German | 1438 | 1341 |
| LMArena Russian | 1412 | 1311 |
| LMArena French | 1456 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1399 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1384 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1437 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Large 3: 74.1 (#104)
- Qwen3 32B: 69.1 (#174)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1402 | 1305 |

## Long Context

- Mistral Large 3: 43.1 (#102)
- Qwen3 32B: 43.7 (#83)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1413 | 1327 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 74.2% |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Large 3: 60.2 (#100)
- Qwen3 32B: 53.1 (#158)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1427 | 1340 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1385 | 1297 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1429 | 1331 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1412 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral Large 3 better than Qwen3 32B?

Mistral Large 3 and Qwen3 32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.6 vs 38.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

### Which is cheaper, Mistral Large 3 or Qwen3 32B?

Mistral Large 3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.75 per million output tokens; Qwen3 32B lists at $0.70 and $2.80.

### Is Mistral Large 3 or Qwen3 32B better for coding?

Qwen3 32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.3 versus 34.1 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Large 3 does, with 262K tokens against 131K.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral Large 3 and Qwen3 32B share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Large 3 has 24 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.