Model comparison

Mistral Large 3 vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct

Mistral Large 3 and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.6 vs 37.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 19 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Large 3

Mistral AI

38.6

Rank #172 Confirmed

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct

Alibaba (Qwen)

37.7

Rank #186 Confirmed

Summary

They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Large 3 scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads 24.7 to 14.6.
Mistral Large 3 is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.75 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct.

Side by side

Mistral Large 3 and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct specifications
	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Provider	Mistral AI	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	38.6	37.7
Released	2025-12-02	2025-04
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	262K	262K
Max output	8K	66K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.25	$1.50
Output $ / M tokens	$0.75	$7.50
Results tracked	24	25

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Mistral Large 3: 34.1 (#230), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 36.2 (#199)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena WebDev	1230	1275
LMArena Coding	1447	1413
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)	—	55.4%
GSO	—	4.9%
WeirdML	—	41.2%
ALE-Bench	—	461.45
AlgoTune	—	1.44

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mistral Large 3: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.7 (#116)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Terminal-Bench	—	27.2%

Reasoning Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Mistral Large 3: 14.6 (#314), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 24.7 (#141)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Kagi LLM Benchmark	50.9%	49.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts	1429	1372
NYT Connections (extended)	7.5%	—
Thematic Generalization	23%	—

Math Mistral Large 3 leads

Mistral Large 3: 36.0 (#131), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 34.9 (#151)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Math	1415	1364

Knowledge Too close to call

Mistral Large 3: 35.5 (#173), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 36.4 (#159)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Expert	1421	1337
Vectara Hallucination Rate	14.5%	—

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral Large 3: 37.6 (#65), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Vision	1222	—

Multilingual Mistral Large 3 leads

Mistral Large 3: 52.6 (#79), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.8 (#143)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Non-English	1412	1345
LMArena Chinese	1448	1356
LMArena French	1456	1394
LMArena German	1438	1324
LMArena Japanese	1399	1309
LMArena Korean	1384	1307
LMArena Russian	1412	1367
LMArena Spanish	1437	1360

Instruction Following Mistral Large 3 leads

Mistral Large 3: 74.1 (#104), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.8 (#142)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following	1402	1356

Long Context Mistral Large 3 leads

Mistral Large 3: 43.1 (#102), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#126)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query	1413	1379

Writing & Preference Mistral Large 3 leads

Mistral Large 3: 60.2 (#100), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.5 (#142)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Large 3	Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Text	1427	1356
LMArena Creative Writing	1385	1333
LMArena Multi-Turn	1429	1365
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	1412	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Large 3 better than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Mistral Large 3 and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.6 vs 37.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Mistral Large 3 or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Mistral Large 3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.75 per million output tokens; Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

Is Mistral Large 3 or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.2 versus 34.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 262K tokens.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Large 3 and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Large 3 has 24 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.