# Mistral Medium 3.1 vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B

> Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-medium-3-1-vs-qwen2-5-coder-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 41.6.
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is cheaper at $0.66 / $1 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $2 for Mistral Medium 3.1.
- Mistral Medium 3.1 accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 33K.
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 33.4 |
| Rank | 266 | 245 |
| Context | 131K | 33K |
| Input $/M | $0.40 | $0.66 |
| Output $/M | $2 | $1 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral Medium 3.1: —
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.6 (#333)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 9% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 16.4% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 49% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 56.9% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1276 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 58% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 87.2% |
| MBPP+ | — | 77% |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Medium 3.1: 10.6 (#341)
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 21.2 (#225)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| NYT Connections (extended) | 6.5% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | 20.3% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 42.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1251 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 49.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 119.49 |
| HellaSwag | — | 83% |
| LiveBench | — | 46.2% |
| WinoGrande | — | 80.8% |

## Math

- Mistral Medium 3.1: —
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.3 (#204)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | — | 46.6% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1251 |
| GSM8K | — | 93% |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Medium 3.1: —
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.4 (#203)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1221 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 70.5% |
| MMLU | — | 79.1% |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Medium 3.1: —
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.8 (#235)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1205 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1222 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1228 |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Medium 3.1: —
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.4 (#245)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 58.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1223 |

## Long Context

- Mistral Medium 3.1: —
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#208)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1251 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Medium 3.1: 55.5 (#145)
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.6 (#240)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1230 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1174 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1476 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1222 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 23.3% |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral Medium 3.1 better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium 3.1 or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is cheaper. It lists at $0.66 per million input tokens and $1 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.1 lists at $0.40 and $2.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Medium 3.1 does, with 131K tokens against 33K.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral Medium 3.1 and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Medium 3.1 has 3 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.