Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct leads with 1.4% higher average benchmark score. Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Mistral AI
Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct represents a further evolution of the Small model series, developed with continued refinements to instruction-following and task performance. Built to incorporate ongoing improvements, it provides the latest capabilities in Mistral's intermediate-scale offering.
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.
9 months newer

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

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct
Mistral AI
2025-06-20
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct
2023-10-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct