# Mistral Medium vs QwQ-32B

> QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-medium-vs-qwq-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 20

## Summary

- They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Medium scores higher in 4 categories and QwQ-32B in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where QwQ-32B leads 37.2 to 25.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 32.2% for Mistral Medium and 59.2% for QwQ-32B.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Medium | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 36.3 | 39.8 |
| Rank | 218 | 159 |
| Context | 262K | — |
| Input $/M | $1.50 | — |
| Output $/M | $7.50 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)
- QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1434 | 1333 |
| FrontierCode | 8% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| SciCode | 40.2% | — |
| WeirdML | 43.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 44.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.4% |
| ALE-Bench | 763.98 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)
- QwQ-32B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.7% | — |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)
- QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1426 | 1325 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 50% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| DTBench | 75.5% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| LMCA | 26.1% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 26.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 137.6 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.3 |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |

## Math

- Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)
- QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 32.2% | 59.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1408 | 1359 |
| ProofBench | 9% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |
| MATH Level 5 | 81.6% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)
- QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 59.5% | 65.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1408 | 1324 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.5% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 22.7% | — |

## Multimodal

- Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)
- QwQ-32B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1172 | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)
- QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1408 | 1305 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1447 | 1378 |
| LMArena French | 1459 | 1336 |
| LMArena German | 1432 | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1378 | 1262 |
| LMArena Korean | 1380 | 1279 |
| LMArena Russian | 1411 | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1433 | 1354 |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)
- QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1398 | 1297 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |

## Long Context

- Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)
- QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1406 | 1308 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)
- QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1424 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1391 | 1288 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 77.3% | 80.2% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1418 | 1314 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1257 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral Medium better than QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Mistral Medium or QwQ-32B better for coding?

QwQ-32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.4 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral Medium and QwQ-32B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Medium has 36 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.