# Pixtral Large vs Qwen Plus

> Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.7 to 31.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/pixtral-large-vs-qwen-plus
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen Plus leads 52.4 to 32.9.
- Qwen Plus is cheaper at $0.40 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Pixtral Large.
- Qwen Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 128K.
- Pixtral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Pixtral Large | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.7 | 36.7 |
| Rank | 257 | 204 |
| Context | 128K | 1M |
| Input $/M | $2 | $0.40 |
| Output $/M | $6 | $1.20 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Pixtral Large: —
- Qwen Plus: 38.3 (#163)

| Benchmark | Pixtral Large | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1328 |

## Reasoning

- Pixtral Large: 20.9 (#208)
- Qwen Plus: 27.6 (#101)

| Benchmark | Pixtral Large | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 63.3% |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1317 |
| DTBench | — | 81.1% |
| LMCA | — | 24% |

## Math

- Pixtral Large: —
- Qwen Plus: 22.0 (#266)

| Benchmark | Pixtral Large | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 17.8% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1326 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 65.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |

## Knowledge

- Pixtral Large: —
- Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#245)

| Benchmark | Pixtral Large | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 48.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1328 |

## Multimodal

- Pixtral Large: 30.0 (#105)
- Qwen Plus: —

| Benchmark | Pixtral Large | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1089 | — |

## Multilingual

- Pixtral Large: —
- Qwen Plus: 45.3 (#170)

| Benchmark | Pixtral Large | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1310 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1347 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1251 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1323 |

## Instruction Following

- Pixtral Large: —
- Qwen Plus: 69.0 (#176)

| Benchmark | Pixtral Large | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1303 |

## Long Context

- Pixtral Large: —
- Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#153)

| Benchmark | Pixtral Large | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1325 |

## Writing & Preference

- Pixtral Large: 32.9 (#273)
- Qwen Plus: 52.4 (#171)

| Benchmark | Pixtral Large | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1326 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1293 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 988 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1336 |

## FAQ

### Is Pixtral Large better than Qwen Plus?

Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.7 to 31.7 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Pixtral Large or Qwen Plus?

Qwen Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Pixtral Large lists at $2 and $6.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen Plus does, with 1M tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Pixtral Large and Qwen Plus share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Pixtral Large has 3 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Plus has 20.