# Mistral Medium 3.1 vs Qwen1.5-32B

> Mistral Medium 3.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-medium-3-1-vs-qwen1-5-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium 3.1 leads 55.5 to 34.2.
- Qwen1.5-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 30.5 |
| Rank | 266 | 293 |
| Context | 131K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.40 | — |
| Output $/M | $2 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral Medium 3.1: —
- Qwen1.5-32B: 31.7 (#282)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 32.3% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1155 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 42% |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Medium 3.1: 10.6 (#341)
- Qwen1.5-32B: 21.8 (#212)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| NYT Connections (extended) | 6.5% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | 20.3% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1130 |

## Math

- Mistral Medium 3.1: —
- Qwen1.5-32B: 33.0 (#207)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1155 |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Medium 3.1: —
- Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#296)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 30.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1126 |
| MMLU | — | 74.4% |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Medium 3.1: —
- Qwen1.5-32B: 31.4 (#259)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1106 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1177 |
| LMArena French | — | 1101 |
| LMArena German | — | 1058 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1027 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1008 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1073 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1089 |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Medium 3.1: —
- Qwen1.5-32B: 57.7 (#265)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1116 |

## Long Context

- Mistral Medium 3.1: —
- Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#246)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1146 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Medium 3.1: 55.5 (#145)
- Qwen1.5-32B: 34.2 (#271)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1137 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1083 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1476 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1140 |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral Medium 3.1 better than Qwen1.5-32B?

Mistral Medium 3.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral Medium 3.1 and Qwen1.5-32B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Medium 3.1 has 3 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-32B has 21.