Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct leads with 3.6% 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
Qwen2 72B was developed as the flagship model in the Qwen2 generation, designed to provide advanced language understanding with 72 billion parameters. Built to deliver strong performance across diverse tasks, it represented a significant advancement in Qwen's model capabilities when introduced.
6 months newer

Qwen2 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-07-23

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 72B 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 72B Instruct

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Qwen2 72B Instruct
Qwen2 72B Instruct