# Mistral Medium vs Qwen2-72B

> Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-medium-vs-qwen2-72b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 20

## Summary

- They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Medium scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen2-72B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium leads 60.0 to 40.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 81.6% for Mistral Medium and 39.1% for Qwen2-72B.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Medium | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 36.3 | 30.0 |
| Rank | 218 | 300 |
| Context | 262K | — |
| Input $/M | $1.50 | — |
| Output $/M | $7.50 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)
- Qwen2-72B: 29.1 (#310)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 43.7% | 11.3% |
| LMArena Coding | 1434 | 1196 |
| FrontierCode | 8% | — |
| SciCode | 40.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 38.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54% |
| ALE-Bench | 763.98 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)
- Qwen2-72B: 17.0 (#146)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.7% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | — | 1.1% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 29.9% |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)
- Qwen2-72B: 23.2 (#181)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1426 | 1191 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 50% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| DTBench | 75.5% | — |
| LMCA | 26.1% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 26.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 125.28 |

## Math

- Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)
- Qwen2-72B: 30.2 (#236)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1408 | 1235 |
| MATH Level 5 | 81.6% | 39.1% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 32.2% | — |
| ProofBench | 9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)
- Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#275)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 59.5% | 40.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1408 | 1171 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 22.7% | — |
| MMLU | — | 82.4% |

## Multimodal

- Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)
- Qwen2-72B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1172 | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)
- Qwen2-72B: 35.9 (#244)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1408 | 1176 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1447 | 1240 |
| LMArena French | 1459 | 1170 |
| LMArena German | 1432 | 1151 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1378 | 1111 |
| LMArena Korean | 1380 | 1083 |
| LMArena Russian | 1411 | 1169 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1433 | 1169 |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)
- Qwen2-72B: 61.7 (#241)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1398 | 1181 |

## Long Context

- Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)
- Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#235)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1406 | 1192 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)
- Qwen2-72B: 40.8 (#241)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1424 | 1203 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1391 | 1181 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1418 | 1196 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 77.3% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral Medium better than Qwen2-72B?

Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Mistral Medium or Qwen2-72B better for coding?

Mistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.2 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral Medium and Qwen2-72B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Medium has 36 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.