Model comparison
Mistral Small 3 vs Qwen1.5-72B
Mistral Small 3 and Qwen1.5-72B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.2 vs 30.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small 3 scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen1.5-72B in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen1.5-72B leads 33.2 to 16.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 47.3% for Mistral Small 3 and 28.8% for Qwen1.5-72B.
Side by side
| Mistral Small 3 | Qwen1.5-72B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.2 | 30.8 |
| Released | 2025-01-30 | 2024-02-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 33K | — |
| Max output | 16K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.05 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.08 | — |
| Results tracked | 24 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Small 3 leads
Mistral Small 3: 36.5 (#207), Qwen1.5-72B: 31.9 (#277)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.3% | 33.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1246 | 1165 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 50.4% | 40.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 59.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 61.6% |
Reasoning Qwen1.5-72B leads
Mistral Small 3: 18.9 (#273), Qwen1.5-72B: 22.2 (#203)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1233 | 1148 |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.07 | — |
Math Qwen1.5-72B leads
Mistral Small 3: 16.3 (#295), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#205)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1240 | 1164 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 6.7% | — |
Knowledge Mistral Small 3 leads
Mistral Small 3: 25.1 (#263), Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#300)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | 28.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1202 | 1136 |
| Confabulations | 25.2% | — |
Multilingual Mistral Small 3 leads
Mistral Small 3: 37.3 (#236), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#253)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1198 | 1135 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1204 | 1186 |
| LMArena French | 1203 | 1159 |
| LMArena German | 1211 | 1084 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1111 | 1061 |
| LMArena Korean | 1188 | 1050 |
| LMArena Russian | 1216 | 1104 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1110 |
Instruction Following Mistral Small 3 leads
Mistral Small 3: 63.7 (#229), Qwen1.5-72B: 59.3 (#256)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1214 | 1141 |
Long Context Mistral Small 3 leads
Mistral Small 3: 37.8 (#211), Qwen1.5-72B: 35.1 (#243)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1246 | 1157 |
Writing & Preference Qwen1.5-72B leads
Mistral Small 3: 32.2 (#280), Qwen1.5-72B: 37.3 (#258)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1234 | 1166 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1195 | 1137 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1217 | 1160 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 707 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Small 3 better than Qwen1.5-72B?
Mistral Small 3 and Qwen1.5-72B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.2 vs 30.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Mistral Small 3 or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?
Mistral Small 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.5 versus 31.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Small 3 and Qwen1.5-72B share?
19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small 3 has 24 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.