# Mistral vs QwQ-32B

> QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-vs-qwq-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral scores higher in 0 categories and QwQ-32B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where QwQ-32B leads 37.2 to 16.3.
- QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.4 | 39.4 |
| Rank | 297 | 153 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral: 33.2 (#249)
- QwQ-32B: 34.9 (#220)

| Benchmark | Mistral | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1162 | 1333 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 44.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.4% |

## Reasoning

- Mistral: 21.3 (#199)
- QwQ-32B: 22.9 (#171)

| Benchmark | Mistral | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1149 | 1326 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 137.6 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.3 |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |

## Math

- Mistral: 20.5 (#275)
- QwQ-32B: 36.2 (#123)

| Benchmark | Mistral | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1180 | 1359 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 59.2% |
| Omni-MATH | 7.2% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |

## Knowledge

- Mistral: 16.3 (#283)
- QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#150)

| Benchmark | Mistral | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1125 | 1323 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 65.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 27.7% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.3% | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral: 33.0 (#249)
- QwQ-32B: 45.0 (#171)

| Benchmark | Mistral | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1129 | 1306 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1109 | 1378 |
| LMArena French | 1179 | 1337 |
| LMArena German | 1155 | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1012 | 1263 |
| LMArena Korean | 1032 | 1278 |
| LMArena Russian | 1168 | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1143 | 1353 |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral: 52.9 (#283)
- QwQ-32B: 72.8 (#131)

| Benchmark | Mistral | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1152 | 1297 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |
| IFEval | 56.8% | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral: 35.0 (#240)
- QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

| Benchmark | Mistral | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1154 | 1308 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral: 37.2 (#255)
- QwQ-32B: 50.9 (#175)

| Benchmark | Mistral | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1165 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1158 | 1288 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1147 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1257 |
| WildBench | 66% | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |

## FAQ

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

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

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

QwQ-32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.9 versus 33.2 in the Noometry coding category.

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

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral has 22 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.