Mistral Medium 3.5vsQwQ-32B
Mistral Medium 3.5 | QwQ-32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | 128B | 32B |
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 | Mar 6 2025 |
| Access | Open Weight | Open Weight |
Which is better: Mistral Medium 3.5 or QwQ-32B?
Mistral Medium 3.5 and QwQ-32B don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. QwQ-32B shipped 419 days before Mistral Medium 3.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Mistral Medium 3.5 has 128B parameters, while QwQ-32B has 32B. Context windows are 256k (Mistral Medium 3.5) vs 128k (QwQ-32B).
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Mistral Medium 3.5 and QwQ-32B 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.
QwQ-32B was released by Qwen on Mar 6 2025.
Mistral Medium 3.5 has a 256k context window; QwQ-32B has 128k.
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