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Mistral Large 4 vs Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B

Mistral Large 4 and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.1 vs 43.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Large 4 Mistral AI

43.1

Rank #99 Confirmed

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Alibaba (Qwen)

43.2

Rank #95 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Large 4 scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads 29.3 to 22.5.
  • Mistral Large 4 is cheaper at $0.68 / $2.09 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $2.80 for Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B.
  • Mistral Large 4 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Mistral Large 4Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
ProviderMistral AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index43.143.2
Released2026-10-062025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output262K33K
Input $ / M tokens$0.68$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$2.09$2.80
Results tracked1518

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Category by category

Coding Mistral Large 4 leads

Mistral Large 4: 48.6 (#57), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 42.4 (#100)

BenchmarkMistral Large 4Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Coding14751439
LMArena WebDev1541—

Reasoning Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Mistral Large 4: 22.5 (#192), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 29.3 (#92)

BenchmarkMistral Large 4Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Hard Prompts14441428
NYT Connections (extended)27.4%—

Math Mistral Large 4 leads

Mistral Large 4: 40.4 (#91), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 39.0 (#118)

BenchmarkMistral Large 4Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Math14881426

Knowledge Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Mistral Large 4: 36.6 (#166), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 40.3 (#121)

BenchmarkMistral Large 4Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Expert14471442
SimpleQA Verified20%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral Large 4: —, Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 39.8 (#55)

BenchmarkMistral Large 4Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Vision—1247

Multilingual Too close to call

Mistral Large 4: 52.6 (#82), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 51.9 (#97)

BenchmarkMistral Large 4Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Non-English14151405
LMArena Chinese14911463
LMArena Russian14141408
LMArena French—1452
LMArena German—1424
LMArena Japanese—1385
LMArena Korean—1394
LMArena Spanish—1428

Instruction Following Too close to call

Mistral Large 4: 75.0 (#76), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 74.2 (#101)

BenchmarkMistral Large 4Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Instruction Following14241406

Long Context Too close to call

Mistral Large 4: 43.6 (#89), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 43.4 (#98)

BenchmarkMistral Large 4Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Longer Query14291420

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Mistral Large 4: 60.4 (#97), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 60.2 (#99)

BenchmarkMistral Large 4Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Text14271420
LMArena Creative Writing13611366
LMArena Multi-Turn14241428

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Large 4 better than Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B?

Mistral Large 4 and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.1 vs 43.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Mistral Large 4 or Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B?

Mistral Large 4 is cheaper. It lists at $0.68 per million input tokens and $2.09 per million output tokens; Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B lists at $0.70 and $2.80.

Is Mistral Large 4 or Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B better for coding?

Mistral Large 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.6 versus 42.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Large 4 does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Large 4 and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Large 4 has 15 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B has 18.

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