# Mistral Large vs Qwen3.5 27B

> Qwen3.5 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.4 to 31.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-large-vs-qwen3-5-27b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 21

## Summary

- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Large scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 27B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.5 27B leads 36.8 to 17.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 65.1% for Mistral Large and 82.4% for Qwen3.5 27B.
- Qwen3.5 27B is cheaper at $0.30 / $2.40 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Mistral Large.
- Qwen3.5 27B accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.6 | 41.4 |
| Rank | 258 | 127 |
| Context | 131K | 262K |
| Input $/M | $2 | $0.30 |
| Output $/M | $6 | $2.40 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral Large: 33.8 (#240)
- Qwen3.5 27B: 38.6 (#159)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1277 | 1427 |
| ALE-Bench | 264.7 | 349.45 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1357 |
| SciCode | 36.2% | — |
| WeirdML | — | 39.5% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 30% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 47.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 38.3% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 62.2% | — |
| MBPP+ | 59.5% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mistral Large: 28.4 (#83)
- Qwen3.5 27B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 38.4% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 201.98 |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Large: 15.4 (#305)
- Qwen3.5 27B: 26.6 (#116)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1414 |
| DTBench | 65.1% | 82.4% |
| LMCA | 16.7% | 34% |
| SimpleBench | 22.5% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 47.9% |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 45.5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 43.5% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 50.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 128.52 | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.1 | — |
| LiveBench | 48.4% | — |

## Math

- Mistral Large: 17.1 (#285)
- Qwen3.5 27B: 36.8 (#103)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1262 | 1428 |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 56.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.5% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 28.1% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 42.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 50.3% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Large: 30.0 (#224)
- Qwen3.5 27B: 37.4 (#149)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 4.5% | 12.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1232 | 1428 |
| GPQA Diamond | 51.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 59.9% | — |
| Confabulations | 21.4% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.5% | — |
| MMLU | 80% | — |

## Multimodal

- Mistral Large: —
- Qwen3.5 27B: 38.7 (#56)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1240 |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Large: 40.1 (#214)
- Qwen3.5 27B: 51.0 (#112)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1237 | 1390 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1240 | 1478 |
| LMArena French | 1324 | 1409 |
| LMArena German | 1254 | 1393 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1187 | 1345 |
| LMArena Korean | 1202 | 1359 |
| LMArena Russian | 1257 | 1389 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1268 | 1408 |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Large: 68.1 (#186)
- Qwen3.5 27B: 73.7 (#114)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1249 | 1393 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.9% | — |
| IFEval | 87.7% | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral Large: 38.3 (#194)
- Qwen3.5 27B: 43.1 (#103)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1262 | 1413 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Large: 40.9 (#237)
- Qwen3.5 27B: 59.5 (#106)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1266 | 1409 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1243 | 1362 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1260 | 1410 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 69% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 985 | — |
| WildBench | 80.1% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 39.4% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral Large better than Qwen3.5 27B?

Qwen3.5 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.4 to 31.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Mistral Large or Qwen3.5 27B?

Qwen3.5 27B is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.40 per million output tokens; Mistral Large lists at $2 and $6.

### Is Mistral Large or Qwen3.5 27B better for coding?

Qwen3.5 27B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.6 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.5 27B does, with 262K tokens against 131K.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral Large and Qwen3.5 27B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Large has 51 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 27B has 28.