Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. 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
Qwen2-VL 72B was developed as a large vision-language model, designed to handle multimodal tasks combining visual and textual understanding. Built with 72 billion parameters for integrated vision and language processing, it enables applications requiring sophisticated analysis of images alongside text.
9 months newer

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-08-29

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct
Mistral AI
2025-06-20
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
2023-06-30
Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct
2023-10-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct