# Mistral Small vs Qwen1.5-72B

> Mistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-small-vs-qwen1-5-72b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 20

## Summary

- They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen1.5-72B in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Mistral Small leads 31.0 to 11.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 47.5% for Mistral Small and 28.8% for Qwen1.5-72B.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Small | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 33.4 | 30.8 |
| Rank | 243 | 285 |
| Context | 262K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.15 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.60 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 31.9 (#277)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 36.1% | 33.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1362 | 1165 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 46.6% | 40.3% |
| SciCode | 26.5% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 36.2% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 497.62 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 59.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 61.6% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93)
- Qwen1.5-72B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 22.2 (#203)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1335 | 1148 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 44.8% | — |
| DTBench | 70.9% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 53.7% | — |
| LMCA | 20.6% | — |
| LiveBench | 44% | — |

## Math

- Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#205)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1341 | 1164 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 5.8% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 39.9% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.8% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#300)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.5% | 28.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1291 | 1136 |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
| MMLU | 68.7% | — |

## Multimodal

- Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96)
- Qwen1.5-72B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1142 | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#253)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1315 | 1135 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1340 | 1186 |
| LMArena French | 1337 | 1159 |
| LMArena German | 1340 | 1084 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1275 | 1061 |
| LMArena Korean | 1259 | 1050 |
| LMArena Russian | 1324 | 1104 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1346 | 1110 |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 59.3 (#256)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1310 | 1141 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.7% | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 35.1 (#243)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1327 | 1157 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 37.3 (#258)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1338 | 1166 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1305 | 1137 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1344 | 1160 |
| LiveBench Language | 30.5% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral Small better than Qwen1.5-72B?

Mistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Mistral Small or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?

Mistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 31.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral Small and Qwen1.5-72B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small has 39 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.