# Mistral Small 3.1 vs QwQ-32B

> QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 31.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-small-3-1-vs-qwq-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 22

## Summary

- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small 3.1 scores higher in 1 category and QwQ-32B in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where QwQ-32B leads 38.0 to 14.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 3.9% for Mistral Small 3.1 and 59.2% for QwQ-32B.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Small 3.1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.7 | 39.8 |
| Rank | 269 | 159 |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.35 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.56 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral Small 3.1: 38.3 (#179)
- QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1309 | 1333 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 44.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.4% |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Small 3.1: 19.7 (#254)
- QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 1% | 5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1278 | 1325 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.48 | 137.6 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.3 |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |

## Math

- Mistral Small 3.1: 14.7 (#301)
- QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 3.9% | 59.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1262 | 1359 |
| Omni-MATH | 24.8% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Small 3.1: 22.6 (#271)
- QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 41.9% | 65.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1257 | 1324 |
| MMLU-Pro | 61% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39.2% | — |

## Multimodal

- Mistral Small 3.1: 33.2 (#99)
- QwQ-32B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1136 | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Small 3.1: 41.2 (#209)
- QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1255 | 1305 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1253 | 1378 |
| LMArena French | 1273 | 1336 |
| LMArena German | 1266 | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1208 | 1262 |
| LMArena Korean | 1206 | 1279 |
| LMArena Russian | 1263 | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1283 | 1354 |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Small 3.1: 63.6 (#230)
- QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1264 | 1297 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |
| IFEval | 75% | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral Small 3.1: 39.5 (#178)
- QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1299 | 1308 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Small 3.1: 37.0 (#259)
- QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1277 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1253 | 1288 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 761 | 1257 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1270 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| WildBench | 78.8% | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral Small 3.1 better than QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 31.7 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Mistral Small 3.1 or QwQ-32B better for coding?

Mistral Small 3.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.3 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral Small 3.1 and QwQ-32B share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small 3.1 has 28 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.