Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct leads with 21.6% higher average benchmark score. Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Mistral Small 3.2 24B 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 Coder 7B was created as an efficient coding-specialized model, designed to bring strong programming capabilities to resource-conscious deployments. Built with 7 billion parameters optimized for code understanding and generation, it provides developers with a lightweight option for code-related tasks.
9 months newer

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct
Mistral AI
2025-06-20
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct
Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct
2023-10-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct