# Mistral Small 3 vs Qwen Turbo

> Mistral Small 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.2 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-small-3-vs-qwen-turbo
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 2

## Summary

- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small 3 scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen Turbo in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 47.3% for Mistral Small 3 and 41.8% for Qwen Turbo.
- Mistral Small 3 is cheaper at $0.05 / $0.08 per million input/output tokens, against $0.05 / $0.20 for Qwen Turbo.
- Qwen Turbo accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 33K.
- Mistral Small 3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.2 | 27.1 |
| Rank | 278 | 335 |
| Context | 33K | 1M |
| Input $/M | $0.05 | $0.05 |
| Output $/M | $0.08 | $0.20 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Mistral Small 3: 36.5 (#207)
- Qwen Turbo: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.3% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1246 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 50.4% | — |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Small 3: 18.9 (#273)
- Qwen Turbo: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1233 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.07 | — |

## Math

- Mistral Small 3: 16.3 (#295)
- Qwen Turbo: 15.3 (#297)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 6.7% | 6.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1240 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 56.2% |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Small 3: 25.1 (#263)
- Qwen Turbo: 22.2 (#272)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | 41.8% |
| Confabulations | 25.2% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1202 | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Small 3: 37.3 (#236)
- Qwen Turbo: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1198 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1204 | — |
| LMArena French | 1203 | — |
| LMArena German | 1211 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1111 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1188 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Small 3: 63.7 (#229)
- Qwen Turbo: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1214 | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral Small 3: 37.8 (#211)
- Qwen Turbo: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1246 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Small 3: 32.2 (#280)
- Qwen Turbo: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1234 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1195 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 707 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1217 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral Small 3 better than Qwen Turbo?

Mistral Small 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.2 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Mistral Small 3 or Qwen Turbo?

Mistral Small 3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.08 per million output tokens; Qwen Turbo lists at $0.05 and $0.20.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen Turbo does, with 1M tokens against 33K.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral Small 3 and Qwen Turbo share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small 3 has 24 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Turbo has 3.