# Pixtral Large vs Qwen3.5-Flash

> Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 31.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/pixtral-large-vs-qwen3-5-flash
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3.5-Flash leads 58.2 to 32.9.
- Qwen3.5-Flash is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Pixtral Large.
- Qwen3.5-Flash accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 128K.
- Pixtral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Pixtral Large | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.7 | 42.3 |
| Rank | 257 | 105 |
| Context | 128K | 1M |
| Input $/M | $2 | $0.10 |
| Output $/M | $6 | $0.40 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Pixtral Large: —
- Qwen3.5-Flash: 33.9 (#234)

| Benchmark | Pixtral Large | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1243 |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1412 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 221.8 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Pixtral Large: —
- Qwen3.5-Flash: —

| Benchmark | Pixtral Large | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 462.69 |

## Reasoning

- Pixtral Large: 20.9 (#208)
- Qwen3.5-Flash: 32.9 (#63)

| Benchmark | Pixtral Large | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 21% |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1404 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 20% |
| DTBench | — | 82.9% |
| LMCA | — | 29.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 143.98 |

## Math

- Pixtral Large: —
- Qwen3.5-Flash: 36.3 (#117)

| Benchmark | Pixtral Large | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 18.2% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 84.4% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1407 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 6.2% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 0% |

## Knowledge

- Pixtral Large: —
- Qwen3.5-Flash: 43.2 (#84)

| Benchmark | Pixtral Large | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 82.3% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 20.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 10.5% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1408 |

## Multimodal

- Pixtral Large: 30.0 (#105)
- Qwen3.5-Flash: —

| Benchmark | Pixtral Large | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1089 | — |

## Multilingual

- Pixtral Large: —
- Qwen3.5-Flash: 50.7 (#116)

| Benchmark | Pixtral Large | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1385 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1446 |
| LMArena French | — | 1412 |
| LMArena German | — | 1389 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1369 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1344 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1379 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1399 |

## Instruction Following

- Pixtral Large: —
- Qwen3.5-Flash: 72.8 (#133)

| Benchmark | Pixtral Large | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1374 |

## Long Context

- Pixtral Large: —
- Qwen3.5-Flash: 42.4 (#119)

| Benchmark | Pixtral Large | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1392 |

## Writing & Preference

- Pixtral Large: 32.9 (#273)
- Qwen3.5-Flash: 58.2 (#117)

| Benchmark | Pixtral Large | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1397 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1343 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 988 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1393 |

## FAQ

### Is Pixtral Large better than Qwen3.5-Flash?

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 31.7 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Pixtral Large or Qwen3.5-Flash?

Qwen3.5-Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; Pixtral Large lists at $2 and $6.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.5-Flash does, with 1M tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Pixtral Large and Qwen3.5-Flash share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Pixtral Large has 3 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-Flash has 32.