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Model comparison

Mistral Large 3 vs Qwen3 8B

Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 33.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Large 3 Mistral AI

38.6

Rank #172 Confirmed

Qwen3 8B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.3

Rank #237 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Mistral Large 3 scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3 8B in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Mistral Large 3 leads 43.1 to 37.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Vectara Hallucination Rate: 14.5% for Mistral Large 3 and 4.8% for Qwen3 8B.
  • Qwen3 8B is cheaper at $0.18 / $0.70 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $0.75 for Mistral Large 3.
  • Mistral Large 3 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

Mistral Large 3Qwen3 8B
ProviderMistral AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index38.633.3
Released2025-12-022025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K131K
Max output8K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.25$0.18
Output $ / M tokens$0.75$0.70
Results tracked2411

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Mistral Large 3: 34.1 (#230), Qwen3 8B: 33.4 (#245)

BenchmarkMistral Large 3Qwen3 8B
LMArena WebDev1230—
SciCode—22.6%
LMArena Coding1447—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mistral Large 3: —, Qwen3 8B: 29.9 (#71)

BenchmarkMistral Large 3Qwen3 8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—42.6%

Reasoning Qwen3 8B leads

Mistral Large 3: 14.6 (#314), Qwen3 8B: 16.1 (#299)

BenchmarkMistral Large 3Qwen3 8B
Kagi LLM Benchmark50.9%—
NYT Connections (extended)7.5%—
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—5%
Thematic Generalization23%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1429—
DTBench—59.7%
LMCA—8.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index—136.17

Math Mistral Large 3 leads

Mistral Large 3: 36.0 (#131), Qwen3 8B: 33.3 (#176)

BenchmarkMistral Large 3Qwen3 8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—56.1%
LMArena Math1415—

Knowledge Too close to call

Mistral Large 3: 35.5 (#173), Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#164)

BenchmarkMistral Large 3Qwen3 8B
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.5%4.8%
GPQA Diamond—56.8%
LMArena Expert1421—

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral Large 3: 37.6 (#65), Qwen3 8B: —

BenchmarkMistral Large 3Qwen3 8B
LMArena Vision1222—

Multilingual Not comparable

Mistral Large 3: 52.6 (#79), Qwen3 8B: —

BenchmarkMistral Large 3Qwen3 8B
LMArena Non-English1412—
LMArena Chinese1448—
LMArena French1456—
LMArena German1438—
LMArena Japanese1399—
LMArena Korean1384—
LMArena Russian1412—
LMArena Spanish1437—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Mistral Large 3: 74.1 (#104), Qwen3 8B: —

BenchmarkMistral Large 3Qwen3 8B
LMArena Instruction Following1402—

Long Context Mistral Large 3 leads

Mistral Large 3: 43.1 (#102), Qwen3 8B: 37.8 (#205)

BenchmarkMistral Large 3Qwen3 8B
Fiction.LiveBench—62.1%
LMArena Longer Query1413—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Mistral Large 3: 60.2 (#100), Qwen3 8B: —

BenchmarkMistral Large 3Qwen3 8B
LMArena Text1427—
LMArena Creative Writing1385—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1412—
LMArena Multi-Turn1429—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Large 3 better than Qwen3 8B?

Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 33.3 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Mistral Large 3 or Qwen3 8B?

Qwen3 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.18 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens; Mistral Large 3 lists at $0.25 and $0.75.

Is Mistral Large 3 or Qwen3 8B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (34.1 vs 33.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.

Which has the bigger context window?

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

How many benchmarks do Mistral Large 3 and Qwen3 8B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Mistral Large 3 has 24 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.

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