Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads with 5.4% higher average benchmark score. Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Qwen2.5 32B Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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 32B was created as a larger variant in the Qwen 2.5 family, designed to deliver enhanced capabilities with 32 billion parameters. Built to serve applications requiring stronger reasoning and generation quality, it represents a powerful option for demanding language understanding tasks.
9 months newer

Qwen2.5 32B 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 32B Instruct
Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct
2023-10-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct