Mistral Medium 3.5vsQwQ-32B-Preview
Mistral Medium 3.5 | QwQ-32B-Preview | |
|---|---|---|
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | 128B | 32B |
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 28 2024 |
| Access | Open Weight | Open Weight |
Which is better: Mistral Medium 3.5 or QwQ-32B-Preview?
Mistral Medium 3.5 and QwQ-32B-Preview don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. QwQ-32B-Preview shipped 517 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-Preview has 32B. Context windows are 256k (Mistral Medium 3.5) vs 32k (QwQ-32B-Preview).
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Mistral Medium 3.5 and QwQ-32B-Preview 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-Preview was released by Qwen on Nov 28 2024.
Mistral Medium 3.5 has a 256k context window; QwQ-32B-Preview has 32k.
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