Model comparison
Mistral Small vs Qwen1.5-110B
Mistral Small and Qwen1.5-110B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.1 vs 33.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen1.5-110B in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen1.5-110B leads 31.1 to 15.4.
Side by side
| Mistral Small | Qwen1.5-110B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 33.1 | 33.6 |
| Released | 2024-02-26 | 2024-04-25 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 256K | — |
| Max output | 256K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.15 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.60 | — |
| Results tracked | 39 | 20 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 33.5 (#242), Qwen1.5-110B: 32.4 (#260)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 36.1% | 35% |
| LMArena Coding | 1363 | 1184 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 46.6% | 44.4% |
| SciCode | 26.5% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 36.2% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 497.62 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral Small: 27.9 (#87), Qwen1.5-110B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.1% | — |
Reasoning Qwen1.5-110B leads
Mistral Small: 19.3 (#238), Qwen1.5-110B: 21.7 (#192)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1336 | 1168 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 44.8% | — |
| DTBench | 70.9% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 53.7% | — |
| LMCA | 20.6% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.7 |
| LiveBench | 44% | — |
Math Qwen1.5-110B leads
Mistral Small: 15.4 (#287), Qwen1.5-110B: 31.1 (#199)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1341 | 1185 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 5.8% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 39.9% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.8% | — |
Knowledge Too close to call
Mistral Small: 30.9 (#214), Qwen1.5-110B: 30.7 (#217)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1293 | 1144 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
| MMLU | 68.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Mistral Small: 32.9 (#91), Qwen1.5-110B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1142 | — |
Multilingual Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 45.7 (#164), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.8 (#245)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1315 | 1142 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1342 | 1206 |
| LMArena French | 1337 | 1150 |
| LMArena German | 1341 | 1123 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1275 | 1074 |
| LMArena Korean | 1260 | 1044 |
| LMArena Russian | 1324 | 1118 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1346 | 1141 |
Instruction Following Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 66.6 (#204), Qwen1.5-110B: 60.6 (#247)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1310 | 1158 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.7% | — |
Long Context Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 40.4 (#151), Qwen1.5-110B: 35.0 (#237)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1327 | 1157 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 52.6 (#165), Qwen1.5-110B: 38.1 (#250)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1338 | 1175 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1304 | 1148 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1344 | 1160 |
| LiveBench Language | 30.5% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Small better than Qwen1.5-110B?
Mistral Small and Qwen1.5-110B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.1 vs 33.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Mistral Small or Qwen1.5-110B better for coding?
Mistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.5 versus 32.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Small and Qwen1.5-110B share?
19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small has 39 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-110B has 20.