# Mistral Large vs Qwen3.5 Max Preview

> Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.7 to 31.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-large-vs-qwen3-5-max-preview
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Large scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 Max Preview in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads 66.1 to 40.9.
- Mistral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.6 | 44.7 |
| Rank | 258 | 72 |
| Context | 131K | — |
| Input $/M | $2 | — |
| Output $/M | $6 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Mistral Large: 33.8 (#240)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 43.4 (#79)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1277 | 1488 |
| SciCode | 36.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 30% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 47.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 38.3% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 264.7 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 62.2% | — |
| MBPP+ | 59.5% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mistral Large: 28.4 (#83)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 38.4% | — |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Large: 15.4 (#305)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 29.6 (#81)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1483 |
| SimpleBench | 22.5% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 43.5% | — |
| DTBench | 65.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 50.1% | — |
| LMCA | 16.7% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 128.52 | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.1 | — |
| LiveBench | 48.4% | — |

## Math

- Mistral Large: 17.1 (#285)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 37.3 (#99)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1262 | 1473 |
| 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 Max Preview: 41.1 (#104)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1232 | 1489 |
| GPQA Diamond | 51.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 59.9% | — |
| Confabulations | 21.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 4.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.5% | — |
| MMLU | 80% | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Large: 40.1 (#214)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 56.4 (#21)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1237 | 1465 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1240 | 1534 |
| LMArena French | 1324 | 1483 |
| LMArena German | 1254 | 1487 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1187 | 1497 |
| LMArena Korean | 1202 | 1438 |
| LMArena Russian | 1257 | 1472 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1268 | 1470 |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Large: 68.1 (#186)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 77.2 (#28)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1249 | 1467 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.9% | — |
| IFEval | 87.7% | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral Large: 38.3 (#194)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 45.2 (#44)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1262 | 1477 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Large: 40.9 (#237)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 66.1 (#39)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1266 | 1471 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1243 | 1464 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1260 | 1478 |
| 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 Max Preview?

Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.7 to 31.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Mistral Large or Qwen3.5 Max Preview better for coding?

Qwen3.5 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.4 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral Large and Qwen3.5 Max Preview share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Large has 51 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Max Preview has 17.