Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct leads with 1.8% higher average benchmark score. Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Mistral AI
Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct was developed as the instruction-tuned version of the 3.1 base model, designed to deliver improved instruction-following with refinements from the updated architecture. Built to serve diverse applications with enhanced reliability, it advances the Small model line's capabilities.
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.
7 months newer

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

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct
Mistral AI
2025-03-17
Average performance across 6 common benchmarks

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct

Qwen2 72B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct

Qwen2 72B Instruct

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct

Qwen2 72B Instruct