# Mistral vs Qwen2-72B

> Mistral and Qwen2-72B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-vs-qwen2-72b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral scores higher in 1 category and Qwen2-72B in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Qwen2-72B leads 61.7 to 52.6.
- Qwen2-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 30.0 |
| Rank | 303 | 300 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral: 33.8 (#250)
- Qwen2-72B: 29.1 (#310)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1162 | 1196 |
| WeirdML | — | 11.3% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 38.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mistral: —
- Qwen2-72B: 17.0 (#146)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 1.1% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 29.9% |

## Reasoning

- Mistral: 22.2 (#200)
- Qwen2-72B: 23.2 (#181)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1149 | 1191 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 125.28 |

## Math

- Mistral: 22.3 (#278)
- Qwen2-72B: 30.2 (#236)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1180 | 1235 |
| Omni-MATH | 7.2% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 39.1% |

## Knowledge

- Mistral: 16.6 (#288)
- Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#275)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1125 | 1171 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 40.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | 27.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.3% | — |
| MMLU | — | 82.4% |

## Multilingual

- Mistral: 32.8 (#254)
- Qwen2-72B: 35.9 (#244)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1129 | 1176 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1109 | 1240 |
| LMArena French | 1180 | 1170 |
| LMArena German | 1155 | 1151 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1013 | 1111 |
| LMArena Korean | 1032 | 1083 |
| LMArena Russian | 1168 | 1169 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1143 | 1169 |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral: 52.6 (#288)
- Qwen2-72B: 61.7 (#241)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1152 | 1181 |
| IFEval | 56.8% | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral: 35.0 (#245)
- Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#235)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1153 | 1192 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral: 37.0 (#260)
- Qwen2-72B: 40.8 (#241)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1165 | 1203 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1158 | 1181 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1147 | 1196 |
| WildBench | 66% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral better than Qwen2-72B?

Mistral and Qwen2-72B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

### Is Mistral or Qwen2-72B better for coding?

Mistral scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral and Qwen2-72B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral has 22 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.