# Mistral vs Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)

> Mistral has enough public results to be ranked (#303); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-vs-qwen2-5-coder
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | — |
| Rank | 303 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral: 33.8 (#250)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Mistral | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1162 | — |

## Reasoning

- Mistral: 22.2 (#200)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Mistral | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1149 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 113.14 |
| HellaSwag | — | 76.8% |
| WinoGrande | — | 72.9% |

## Math

- Mistral: 22.3 (#278)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Mistral | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 7.2% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1180 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 86.7% |

## Knowledge

- Mistral: 16.6 (#288)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Mistral | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 27.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1125 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 60.9% |
| MMLU | — | 68% |

## Multilingual

- Mistral: 32.8 (#254)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Mistral | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1129 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1109 | — |
| LMArena French | 1180 | — |
| LMArena German | 1155 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1013 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1032 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1168 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1143 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral: 52.6 (#288)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Mistral | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 56.8% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1152 | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral: 35.0 (#245)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Mistral | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1153 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral: 37.0 (#260)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Mistral | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1165 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1158 | — |
| WildBench | 66% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1147 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral better than Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)?

Mistral has enough public results to be ranked (#303); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral has 22 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has 6.