# Mistral Nemo vs Qwen3-30B-A3B

> Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-nemo-vs-qwen3-30b-a3b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 4

## Summary

- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Nemo scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-30B-A3B in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3-30B-A3B leads 41.7 to 12.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 29.9% for Mistral Nemo and 70.1% for Qwen3-30B-A3B.
- Mistral Nemo is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $0.12 / $0.50 for Qwen3-30B-A3B.
- Mistral Nemo accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 41K.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Nemo | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 25.9 | 38.5 |
| Rank | 332 | 174 |
| Context | 128K | 41K |
| Input $/M | $0.15 | $0.12 |
| Output $/M | $0.15 | $0.50 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral Nemo: —
- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.0 (#188)

| Benchmark | Mistral Nemo | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 33.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 29.8% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1416 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mistral Nemo: 23.3 (#118)
- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.5 (#75)

| Benchmark | Mistral Nemo | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 27.6% | 41.4% |
| BALROG | 17.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Nemo: 19.9 (#230)
- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 21.6 (#193)

| Benchmark | Mistral Nemo | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 48.6% | 69.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.63 | 139.63 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 54.9% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1398 |
| LMCA | — | 22.4% |
| PIQA | 83.5% | — |

## Math

- Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#263)
- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 36.0 (#133)

| Benchmark | Mistral Nemo | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 47.8% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 70.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1394 |
| MATH Level 5 | 10.8% | — |
| GSM8K | 84.2% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#293)
- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.7 (#96)

| Benchmark | Mistral Nemo | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 29.9% | 70.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 12.3% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1395 |
| BoolQ | 82.5% | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Nemo: —
- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.8 (#126)

| Benchmark | Mistral Nemo | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1372 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1434 |
| LMArena French | — | 1419 |
| LMArena German | — | 1379 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1338 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1333 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1369 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1403 |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Nemo: —
- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.2 (#137)

| Benchmark | Mistral Nemo | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1364 |

## Long Context

- Mistral Nemo: —
- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#278)

| Benchmark | Mistral Nemo | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 40.6% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1379 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Nemo: 28.6 (#291)
- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.9 (#138)

| Benchmark | Mistral Nemo | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1384 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1318 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 75.3% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 881 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1378 |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral Nemo better than Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Mistral Nemo or Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Mistral Nemo is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Qwen3-30B-A3B lists at $0.12 and $0.50.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Nemo does, with 128K tokens against 41K.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral Nemo and Qwen3-30B-A3B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Nemo has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32.