Model Comparison

Mistral Large 3 (675B Base) vs Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct

Mistral Large 3 (675B Base) significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

1 benchmarks

Mistral Large 3 (675B Base) outperforms in 1 benchmarks (LiveCodeBench), while Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct is better at 0 benchmarks.

Mistral Large 3 (675B Base) significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

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Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

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Mistral AI
Mistral Large 3 (675B Base)
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
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Model Size

Parameter count comparison

668.0B diff

Mistral Large 3 (675B Base) has 668.0B more parameters than Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct, making it 9542.9% larger.

Mistral AI
Mistral Large 3 (675B Base)
675.0Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct
7.0Bparameters
675.0B
Mistral Large 3 (675B Base)
7.0B
Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct

Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Mistral Large 3 (675B Base) supports multimodal inputs, whereas Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct does not.

Mistral Large 3 (675B Base) can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Mistral Large 3 (675B Base)

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Both models are licensed under Apache 2.0.

Both models share the same licensing terms, providing consistent usage rights.

Mistral Large 3 (675B Base)

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Mistral Large 3 (675B Base) was released on 2025-12-04, while Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct was released on 2024-09-19.

Mistral Large 3 (675B Base) is 15 months newer than Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct.

Mistral Large 3 (675B Base)

Dec 4, 2025

4 months ago

1.2yr newer
Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct

Sep 19, 2024

1.6 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

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Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

Supports multimodal inputs
Higher LiveCodeBench score (34.4% vs 18.2%)
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Detailed Comparison

FAQ

Common questions about Mistral Large 3 (675B Base) vs Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct

Mistral Large 3 (675B Base) significantly outperforms across most benchmarks. Mistral Large 3 (675B Base) is made by Mistral AI and Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct is made by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their benchmark scores, pricing, and capabilities above.
Mistral Large 3 (675B Base) scores MMMLU: 85.5%, AMC_2022_23: 52.0%, GPQA: 43.9%, LiveCodeBench: 34.4%, SimpleQA: 23.8%. Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct scores HumanEval: 88.4%, GSM8k: 83.9%, MBPP: 83.5%, HellaSwag: 76.8%, Winogrande: 72.9%.
Key differences include multimodal support (yes vs no). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.
Mistral Large 3 (675B Base) is developed by Mistral AI and Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.