Mistral Medium 3.5vsQwen2.5
Mistral Medium 3.5 | Qwen2.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | 128B | 72B |
Context window | 256k | 128k |
| 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 | Sep 19 2024 |
| Access | Open Weight | Open Weight |
Which is better: Mistral Medium 3.5 or Qwen2.5?
Mistral Medium 3.5 and Qwen2.5 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Qwen2.5 shipped 587 days before Mistral Medium 3.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Mistral Medium 3.5 has 128B parameters, while Qwen2.5 has 72B. Context windows are 256k (Mistral Medium 3.5) vs 128k (Qwen2.5).
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Mistral Medium 3.5 and Qwen2.5 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.
Qwen2.5 was released by Qwen on Sep 19 2024.
Mistral Medium 3.5 has a 256k context window; Qwen2.5 has 128k.
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