# Mistral vs Qwen1.5-72B

> Mistral and Qwen1.5-72B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 30.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-vs-qwen1-5-72b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen1.5-72B in 5 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen1.5-72B leads 33.2 to 22.3.
- Qwen1.5-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 30.8 |
| Rank | 303 | 285 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral: 33.8 (#250)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 31.9 (#277)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1162 | 1165 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 33.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 40.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 59.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 61.6% |

## Reasoning

- Mistral: 22.2 (#200)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 22.2 (#203)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1149 | 1148 |

## Math

- Mistral: 22.3 (#278)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#205)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1180 | 1164 |
| Omni-MATH | 7.2% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mistral: 16.6 (#288)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#300)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1125 | 1136 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 28.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | 27.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.3% | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral: 32.8 (#254)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#253)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1129 | 1135 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1109 | 1186 |
| LMArena French | 1180 | 1159 |
| LMArena German | 1155 | 1084 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1013 | 1061 |
| LMArena Korean | 1032 | 1050 |
| LMArena Russian | 1168 | 1104 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1143 | 1110 |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral: 52.6 (#288)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 59.3 (#256)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1152 | 1141 |
| IFEval | 56.8% | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral: 35.0 (#245)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 35.1 (#243)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1153 | 1157 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral: 37.0 (#260)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 37.3 (#258)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1165 | 1166 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1158 | 1137 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1147 | 1160 |
| WildBench | 66% | — |

## FAQ

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

Mistral and Qwen1.5-72B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 30.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

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

Mistral scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 31.9 in the Noometry coding category.

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

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