Codestral-22B vs Qwen2.5 14B Instruct Comparison

Comparing Codestral-22B and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

2 benchmarks

Codestral-22B outperforms in 0 benchmarks, while Qwen2.5 14B Instruct is better at 2 benchmarks (HumanEval, MBPP).

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Cost data unavailable.

Lowest available price from all providers
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Mistral AI
Codestral-22B
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
Best providerUnknown Organization
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
Best providerUnknown Organization
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Model Size

Parameter count comparison

7.5B diff

Codestral-22B has 7.5B more parameters than Qwen2.5 14B Instruct, making it 51.0% larger.

Mistral AI
Codestral-22B
22.2Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
14.7Bparameters
22.2B
Codestral-22B
14.7B
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct

License

Usage and distribution terms

Codestral-22B is licensed under MNPL-0.1, while Qwen2.5 14B Instruct uses Apache 2.0.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Codestral-22B

MNPL-0.1

Open weights

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Codestral-22B was released on 2024-05-29, while Qwen2.5 14B Instruct was released on 2024-09-19.

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct is 4 months newer than Codestral-22B.

Codestral-22B

May 29, 2024

1.8 years ago

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct

Sep 19, 2024

1.5 years ago

3mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Higher HumanEval score (83.5% vs 81.1%)
Higher MBPP score (82.0% vs 78.2%)

Detailed Comparison

AI Model Comparison Table
Feature
Mistral AI
Codestral-22B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct