# Pixtral Large vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct

> Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.1 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/pixtral-large-vs-qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads 55.3 to 32.9.
- Both cost about the same: $2 input and $6 output per million tokens.
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.

## Snapshot

| | Pixtral Large | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | 38.1 |
| Rank | 259 | 190 |
| Context | 128K | 262K |
| Input $/M | $2 | $1.50 |
| Output $/M | $6 | $7.50 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Pixtral Large: —
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 35.5 (#223)

| Benchmark | Pixtral Large | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 55.4% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1275 |
| GSO | — | 4.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 41.2% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1412 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 461.45 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.44 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Pixtral Large: —
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.9 (#123)

| Benchmark | Pixtral Large | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 27.2% |

## Reasoning

- Pixtral Large: 21.7 (#218)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 25.5 (#149)

| Benchmark | Pixtral Large | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 49.5% |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1372 |

## Math

- Pixtral Large: —
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.6 (#150)

| Benchmark | Pixtral Large | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1365 |

## Knowledge

- Pixtral Large: —
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.0 (#162)

| Benchmark | Pixtral Large | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1338 |

## Multimodal

- Pixtral Large: 30.6 (#111)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Pixtral Large | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1089 | — |

## Multilingual

- Pixtral Large: —
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.7 (#148)

| Benchmark | Pixtral Large | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1346 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1357 |
| LMArena French | — | 1398 |
| LMArena German | — | 1325 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1310 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1305 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1366 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1360 |

## Instruction Following

- Pixtral Large: —
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.6 (#147)

| Benchmark | Pixtral Large | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1355 |

## Long Context

- Pixtral Large: —
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#131)

| Benchmark | Pixtral Large | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1378 |

## Writing & Preference

- Pixtral Large: 32.9 (#278)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.3 (#147)

| Benchmark | Pixtral Large | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1357 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1333 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 988 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1365 |

## FAQ

### Is Pixtral Large better than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.1 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Pixtral Large or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens; Pixtral Large lists at $2 and $6.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct does, with 262K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Pixtral Large and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Pixtral Large has 3 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.