# Mistral Small vs QwQ-32B

> QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-small-vs-qwq-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 28

## Summary

- They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small scores higher in 2 categories and QwQ-32B in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where QwQ-32B leads 38.0 to 16.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 5.8% for Mistral Small and 59.2% for QwQ-32B.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Small | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 33.4 | 39.8 |
| Rank | 243 | 159 |
| Context | 262K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.15 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.60 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247)
- QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 36.1% | 44.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | 36.2% | 72.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1362 | 1333 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 46.6% | 54.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| SciCode | 26.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 497.62 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93)
- QwQ-32B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250)
- QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 44.8% | 83.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1335 | 1325 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 53.7% | 65% |
| LiveBench | 44% | 72% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| DTBench | 70.9% | — |
| LMCA | 20.6% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 137.6 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.3 |

## Math

- Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293)
- QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 5.8% | 59.2% |
| LiveBench Math | 39.9% | 77.8% |
| LMArena Math | 1341 | 1359 |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.8% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222)
- QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.5% | 65.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1291 | 1324 |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
| MMLU | 68.7% | — |

## Multimodal

- Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96)
- QwQ-32B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1142 | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169)
- QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1315 | 1305 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1340 | 1378 |
| LMArena French | 1337 | 1336 |
| LMArena German | 1340 | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1275 | 1262 |
| LMArena Korean | 1259 | 1279 |
| LMArena Russian | 1324 | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1346 | 1354 |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209)
- QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.7% | 81.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1310 | 1297 |

## Long Context

- Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156)
- QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1327 | 1308 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171)
- QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1338 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1305 | 1288 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1344 | 1314 |
| LiveBench Language | 30.5% | 51.4% |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1257 |

## FAQ

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

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

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

QwQ-32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.4 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.

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

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small has 39 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.