# Mistral Large 3 vs Qwen3 8B

> Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 33.3 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-large-3-vs-qwen3-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Mistral Large 3 scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3 8B in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where Mistral Large 3 leads 43.1 to 37.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Vectara Hallucination Rate: 14.5% for Mistral Large 3 and 4.8% for Qwen3 8B.
- Qwen3 8B is cheaper at $0.18 / $0.70 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $0.75 for Mistral Large 3.
- Mistral Large 3 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Large 3 | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 38.6 | 33.3 |
| Rank | 172 | 237 |
| Context | 262K | 131K |
| Input $/M | $0.25 | $0.18 |
| Output $/M | $0.75 | $0.70 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral Large 3: 34.1 (#230)
- Qwen3 8B: 33.4 (#245)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1230 | — |
| SciCode | — | 22.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1447 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mistral Large 3: —
- Qwen3 8B: 29.9 (#71)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 42.6% |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Large 3: 14.6 (#314)
- Qwen3 8B: 16.1 (#299)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 50.9% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 7.5% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| Thematic Generalization | 23% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1429 | — |
| DTBench | — | 59.7% |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 136.17 |

## Math

- Mistral Large 3: 36.0 (#131)
- Qwen3 8B: 33.3 (#176)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 56.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1415 | — |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Large 3: 35.5 (#173)
- Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#164)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 14.5% | 4.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1421 | — |

## Multimodal

- Mistral Large 3: 37.6 (#65)
- Qwen3 8B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1222 | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Large 3: 52.6 (#79)
- Qwen3 8B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1412 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1448 | — |
| LMArena French | 1456 | — |
| LMArena German | 1438 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1399 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1384 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1412 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1437 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Large 3: 74.1 (#104)
- Qwen3 8B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1402 | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral Large 3: 43.1 (#102)
- Qwen3 8B: 37.8 (#205)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.1% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1413 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Large 3: 60.2 (#100)
- Qwen3 8B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1427 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1385 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1412 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1429 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral Large 3 better than Qwen3 8B?

Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 33.3 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Mistral Large 3 or Qwen3 8B?

Qwen3 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.18 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens; Mistral Large 3 lists at $0.25 and $0.75.

### Is Mistral Large 3 or Qwen3 8B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (34.1 vs 33.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### Which has the bigger context window?

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

### How many benchmarks do Mistral Large 3 and Qwen3 8B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Mistral Large 3 has 24 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.