Mistral Medium 3 vs Qwen3 32B
Updated October 21, 2026. 36 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
Decision reading
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Mistral Medium 3 has the edge where what matters is LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) or Epoch Capabilities Index, where it leads.
- Shared results
- 36
- Mistral Medium 3 only
- 21
- Qwen3 32B only
- 6
- Like-for-like categories
- 7 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Neither has a coding score yet.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Mistral Medium 3
Mistral Medium 3 leads, 9.0 against 7.3.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Mistral Medium 3 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1079.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
No call
Both take 131K tokens.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Qwen3 32B
Mistral Medium 3 $0.0014, Qwen3 32B $0.0003 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Mistral Medium 3 not benchmarked, Qwen3 32B not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Math, 26.0 points apart on average over 4 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- AA Math Index: Mistral Medium 3 30.3 against Qwen3 32B 73.0, 42.7 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Mistral Medium 3 $2.00 against Qwen3 32B $0.40 per million output tokens, 5.0x apart.
- Context window
- Both take 131K tokens.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Mistral Medium 3 | Bars | Qwen3 32B | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 3 | 1 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 1 | ||
| Agentic work | 0 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 2 | 3 | ||
| Math | 0 | 4 | ||
| Knowledge | 4 | 1 | ||
| General | 14 | 1 | ||
| All shared boards | 24 | 12 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index31
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3 | Qwen3 32B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | Not measured | 40.0% | Only Qwen3 32B measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 40.0% | 54.6% | Qwen3 32B |
| SciCode | Not measured | 36.0% | Only Qwen3 32B measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 3.8% | 3.0% | Mistral Medium 3 |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1385 | 1357 | Mistral Medium 3 |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1385 | 1366 | Mistral Medium 3 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 32 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3 | Qwen3 32B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 9.0 | 7.3 | Mistral Medium 3 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 134.0 | 138.4 | Qwen3 32B |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3 | Qwen3 32B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 24.3% | 29.8% | Qwen3 32B |
| Neither model has a result on the other 38 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index23
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3 | Qwen3 32B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 57.8% | 66.8% | Qwen3 32B |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 4.1% | 7.4% | Qwen3 32B |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | Not measured | 65.7% | Only Qwen3 32B measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1364 | 1334 | Mistral Medium 3 |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1342 | 1362 | Qwen3 32B |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1374 | 1350 | Mistral Medium 3 |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1155 | Not measured | Only Mistral Medium 3 measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1165 | Not measured | Only Mistral Medium 3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3 | Qwen3 32B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Math Index | 30.3 | 73.0 | Qwen3 32B |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 30.3% | 73.0% | Qwen3 32B |
| OTIS Mock AIME | Not measured | 66.9% | Only Qwen3 32B measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1353 | 1399 | Qwen3 32B |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1354 | 1420 | Qwen3 32B |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index41
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3 | Qwen3 32B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 76.0% | 79.8% | Qwen3 32B |
| LMArena Text: science | 1381 | 1372 | Mistral Medium 3 |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1381 | 1368 | Mistral Medium 3 |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1384 | 1324 | Mistral Medium 3 |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1352 | 1318 | Mistral Medium 3 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3 | Qwen3 32B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1079 | Not measured | Only Mistral Medium 3 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1024 | Not measured | Only Mistral Medium 3 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1018 | Not measured | Only Mistral Medium 3 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1034 | Not measured | Only Mistral Medium 3 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1083 | Not measured | Only Mistral Medium 3 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1069 | Not measured | Only Mistral Medium 3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index141
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3 | Qwen3 32B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFBench | 39.3% | 36.3% | Mistral Medium 3 |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 31.3% | 0.0% | Mistral Medium 3 |
| DTBench | 62.3% | 67.5% | Qwen3 32B |
| LMCA | Not measured | 17.3% | Only Qwen3 32B measured |
| Fiction.LiveBench | Not measured | 74.2% | Only Qwen3 32B measured |
| LMArena Text | 1370 | 1340 | Mistral Medium 3 |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1338 | 1305 | Mistral Medium 3 |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1343 | 1297 | Mistral Medium 3 |
| LMArena Vision | 1157 | Not measured | Only Mistral Medium 3 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1385 | 1359 | Mistral Medium 3 |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1353 | 1317 | Mistral Medium 3 |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1374 | 1357 | Mistral Medium 3 |
| LMArena Text: German | 1377 | 1341 | Mistral Medium 3 |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1316 | Not measured | Only Mistral Medium 3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1304 | Not measured | Only Mistral Medium 3 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1368 | Not measured | Only Mistral Medium 3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1364 | Not measured | Only Mistral Medium 3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1359 | 1311 | Mistral Medium 3 |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1371 | Not measured | Only Mistral Medium 3 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1384 | 1331 | Mistral Medium 3 |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1360 | 1327 | Mistral Medium 3 |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1352 | 1298 | Mistral Medium 3 |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1335 | 1279 | Mistral Medium 3 |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1172 | Not measured | Only Mistral Medium 3 measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1161 | Not measured | Only Mistral Medium 3 measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1154 | Not measured | Only Mistral Medium 3 measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1145 | Not measured | Only Mistral Medium 3 measured |
| LMArena Vision: captioning | 1094 | Not measured | Only Mistral Medium 3 measured |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | 1141 | Not measured | Only Mistral Medium 3 measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1146 | Not measured | Only Mistral Medium 3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3 | Qwen3 32B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Qwen3 32B costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Qwen3 32B costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Qwen3 32B costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Mistral Medium 3 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Mistral AI | Qwen |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | May 7, 2025 | April 28, 2025 |
| Context window | 131K | 131K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.40 | $0.14 |
| Output $/Mtok | $2.00 | $0.40 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Mistral Medium 3 better than Qwen3 32B for coding?
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Mistral Medium 3 has the edge where what matters is LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) or Epoch Capabilities Index, where it leads.
Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium 3 or Qwen3 32B?
Mistral Medium 3 costs $0.40 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens; Qwen3 32B costs $0.14 and $0.40. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Mistral Medium 3 or Qwen3 32B?
Neither: both take 131K tokens.
How many benchmarks is the Mistral Medium 3 vs Qwen3 32B comparison based on?
36 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Mistral Medium 3's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Qwen3 32B's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.