# Mistral Small vs Qwen3.5 Max Preview

> Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.7 to 33.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-small-vs-qwen3-5-max-preview
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 Max Preview in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads 37.3 to 15.4.
- Mistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Small | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 33.1 | 44.7 |
| Rank | 238 | 72 |
| Context | 256K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.15 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.60 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Mistral Small: 33.5 (#242)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 43.4 (#79)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1363 | 1488 |
| SciCode | 26.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 36.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 36.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 46.6% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 497.62 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mistral Small: 27.9 (#87)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Small: 19.3 (#238)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 29.6 (#81)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1336 | 1483 |
| 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: 15.4 (#287)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 37.3 (#99)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1341 | 1473 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 5.8% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 39.9% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.8% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Small: 30.9 (#214)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 41.1 (#104)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1293 | 1489 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
| MMLU | 68.7% | — |

## Multimodal

- Mistral Small: 32.9 (#91)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1142 | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Small: 45.7 (#164)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 56.4 (#21)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1315 | 1465 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1342 | 1534 |
| LMArena French | 1337 | 1483 |
| LMArena German | 1341 | 1487 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1275 | 1497 |
| LMArena Korean | 1260 | 1438 |
| LMArena Russian | 1324 | 1472 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1346 | 1470 |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Small: 66.6 (#204)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 77.2 (#28)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1310 | 1467 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.7% | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral Small: 40.4 (#151)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 45.2 (#44)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1327 | 1477 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Small: 52.6 (#165)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 66.1 (#39)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1338 | 1471 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1304 | 1464 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1344 | 1478 |
| LiveBench Language | 30.5% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral Small better than Qwen3.5 Max Preview?

Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.7 to 33.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Mistral Small or Qwen3.5 Max Preview better for coding?

Qwen3.5 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.4 versus 33.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral Small and Qwen3.5 Max Preview share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small has 39 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Max Preview has 17.