Mistral Medium 3.5vsQwen-72B
Mistral Medium 3.5 | Qwen-72B | |
|---|---|---|
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | 128B | 72B |
Context window | 256k | 32k |
| Benchmarks | ||
Coding SWE-Bench VerifiedReal coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | 77.6% | — |
Community preference (code) Arena Elo (Code)Like the text arena, but people vote on which AI writes better code. The votes become a chess-style Elo rating on arena.ai. Higher is better. | 1267 | — |
| Overview | ||
| Company | Mistral | Qwen |
| Release date | Apr 29 2026 | Nov 30 2023 |
| Access | Open Weight | Open Weight |
Which is better: Mistral Medium 3.5 or Qwen-72B?
Mistral Medium 3.5 and Qwen-72B don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Qwen-72B shipped 881 days before Mistral Medium 3.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Mistral Medium 3.5 has 128B parameters, while Qwen-72B has 72B. Context windows are 256k (Mistral Medium 3.5) vs 32k (Qwen-72B).
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Mistral Medium 3.5 and Qwen-72B don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.
Frequently asked questions
Mistral Medium 3.5 was released by Mistral on Apr 29 2026.
Qwen-72B was released by Qwen on Nov 30 2023.
Mistral Medium 3.5 has a 256k context window; Qwen-72B has 32k.
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