# Mistral Medium 3 vs Qwen Plus

> Qwen Plus has enough public results to be ranked (#210); Mistral Medium 3 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-medium-3-vs-qwen-plus
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Mistral Medium 3 leads 34.6 to 27.4.
- Qwen Plus is cheaper at $0.40 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $2 for Mistral Medium 3.
- Qwen Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Medium 3 | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 37.0 | 37.1 |
| Rank | — | 210 |
| Context | 131K | 1M |
| Input $/M | $0.40 | $0.40 |
| Output $/M | $2 | $1.20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Mistral Medium 3: —
- Qwen Plus: 38.9 (#167)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3 | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1328 |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Medium 3: —
- Qwen Plus: 28.4 (#107)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3 | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 63.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1317 |
| DTBench | — | 81.1% |
| LMCA | — | 24% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 134.07 | — |

## Math

- Mistral Medium 3: —
- Qwen Plus: 23.3 (#271)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3 | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 17.8% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1326 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 65.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Medium 3: 34.6
- Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#251)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3 | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 48.1% |
| Confabulations | 21.9% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1328 |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Medium 3: —
- Qwen Plus: 45.1 (#175)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3 | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1310 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1347 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1251 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1323 |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Medium 3: —
- Qwen Plus: 68.8 (#181)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3 | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1303 |

## Long Context

- Mistral Medium 3: —
- Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#158)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3 | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1324 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Medium 3: —
- Qwen Plus: 52.2 (#176)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3 | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1326 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1293 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1336 |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral Medium 3 better than Qwen Plus?

Qwen Plus has enough public results to be ranked (#210); Mistral Medium 3 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium 3 or Qwen Plus?

Qwen Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3 lists at $0.40 and $2.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen Plus does, with 1M tokens against 131K.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral Medium 3 and Qwen Plus share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Medium 3 has 2 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Plus has 20.