Model comparison

Mistral Large 3 vs Qwen3 32B

Mistral Large 3 and Qwen3 32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.1 vs 39.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 15 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Large 3

Mistral AI

39.1

Rank #176 Confirmed

Qwen3 32B

Alibaba (Qwen)

39.2

Rank #172 Confirmed

Summary

They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Large 3 scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3 32B in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Large 3 leads 60.0 to 52.9.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is Vectara Hallucination Rate: 14.5% for Mistral Large 3 and 5.9% for Qwen3 32B.
Mistral Large 3 is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.75 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $2.80 for Qwen3 32B.
Mistral Large 3 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

Mistral Large 3 and Qwen3 32B specifications
	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3 32B
Provider	Mistral AI	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	39.1	39.2
Released	2025-12-02	2025-04
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	262K	131K
Max output	8K	16K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.25	$0.70
Output $ / M tokens	$0.75	$2.80
Results tracked	24	26

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 32B leads

Mistral Large 3: 34.4 (#237), Qwen3 32B: 37.7 (#190)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3 32B
LMArena Coding	1448	1358
Aider Polyglot	—	40%
LMArena WebDev	1230	—
SciCode	—	35.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mistral Large 3: —, Qwen3 32B: 32.6 (#62)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3 32B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	—	48.7%

Reasoning Qwen3 32B leads

Mistral Large 3: 15.2 (#319), Qwen3 32B: 20.2 (#241)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3 32B
Kagi LLM Benchmark	50.9%	54.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts	1429	1334
NYT Connections (extended)	7.5%	—
CritPt	—	0.3%
Chess Puzzles	—	5%
Thematic Generalization	23%	—
DTBench	—	67.5%
LMCA	—	17.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index	—	138.51

Math Too close to call

Mistral Large 3: 38.7 (#129), Qwen3 32B: 39.7 (#99)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3 32B
LMArena Math	1414	1399
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	66.9%

Knowledge Qwen3 32B leads

Mistral Large 3: 36.0 (#177), Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#125)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3 32B
Vectara Hallucination Rate	14.5%	5.9%
LMArena Expert	1421	1362
GPQA Diamond	—	65.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral Large 3: 38.2 (#66), Qwen3 32B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3 32B
LMArena Vision	1221	—

Multilingual Mistral Large 3 leads

Mistral Large 3: 52.5 (#84), Qwen3 32B: 45.6 (#167)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3 32B
LMArena Non-English	1413	1317
LMArena Chinese	1447	1357
LMArena German	1437	1341
LMArena Russian	1411	1311
LMArena French	1455	—
LMArena Japanese	1394	—
LMArena Korean	1384	—
LMArena Spanish	1440	—

Instruction Following Mistral Large 3 leads

Mistral Large 3: 74.0 (#108), Qwen3 32B: 68.9 (#179)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3 32B
LMArena Instruction Following	1403	1305

Long Context Too close to call

Mistral Large 3: 43.1 (#105), Qwen3 32B: 43.8 (#87)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3 32B
LMArena Longer Query	1413	1327
Fiction.LiveBench	—	74.2%

Writing & Preference Mistral Large 3 leads

Mistral Large 3: 60.0 (#101), Qwen3 32B: 52.9 (#163)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3 32B
LMArena Text	1428	1340
LMArena Creative Writing	1386	1297
LMArena Multi-Turn	1429	1331
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	1412	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Large 3 better than Qwen3 32B?

Mistral Large 3 and Qwen3 32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.1 vs 39.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Mistral Large 3 or Qwen3 32B?

Mistral Large 3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.75 per million output tokens; Qwen3 32B lists at $0.70 and $2.80.

Is Mistral Large 3 or Qwen3 32B better for coding?

Qwen3 32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.7 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Large 3 does, with 262K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Large 3 and Qwen3 32B share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Large 3 has 24 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.