Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct leads with 1.4% higher average benchmark score. Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct is available on 2 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Mistral AI
Mistral Small 24B Instruct was created as the instruction-tuned version of the 24B base model, designed to follow user instructions reliably. Built to serve general-purpose applications requiring moderate capability, it balances performance with deployment practicality.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen 2.5 14B was developed as a mid-sized instruction-tuned model, designed to balance capability and efficiency for diverse language tasks. Built with 14 billion parameters, it provides strong performance for applications requiring reliable instruction-following without the resource demands of larger models.
4 months newer

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
Mistral AI
2025-01-30
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
2023-10-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
DeepInfra
Mistral AI


Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct