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Mistral Small 3 24B Base vs Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct leads the LLM Stats Score 14.3 to -0.3.

Mistral AI · Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct leads the overall LLM Stats Score 14.3 to -0.3, ranking #237 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Mistral Small 3 24B Base

  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Jan 2025

Choose Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

  • overall performance matters — it scores 14.3 and ranks #237 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Mistral Small 3 24B Base
Mistral AI
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
-0.3
#327
14.3
#237
Reasoning
-0.3
#321
11.6
#252
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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Input price
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Output price
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Context window
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Individual benchmarks

9 reported for Mistral Small 3 24B Base · 15 for Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

No common benchmarks found

Mistral Small 3 24B Base and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instructdon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Model Size

Parameter count comparison

49.8B diff

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct has 49.8B more parameters than Mistral Small 3 24B Base, making it 211.0% larger.

Mistral AI
Mistral Small 3 24B Base
23.6Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
73.4Bparameters
23.6B
Mistral Small 3 24B Base
73.4B
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Both Mistral Small 3 24B Base and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct support multimodal inputs.

They are both capable of processing various types of data, offering versatility in application.

Mistral Small 3 24B Base

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Mistral Small 3 24B Base is licensed under Apache 2.0, while Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct uses tongyi-qianwen.

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

Mistral Small 3 24B Base

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

tongyi-qianwen

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Mistral Small 3 24B Base was released on 2025-01-30, while Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct was released on 2024-08-29.

Mistral Small 3 24B Base is 5 months newer than Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct.

Mistral Small 3 24B Base

Jan 30, 2025

1.6 years ago

5mo newer
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Aug 29, 2024

2.1 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Mistral Small 3 24B Base has a knowledge cutoff of 2023-10-01, while Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct has a cutoff of 2023-06-30.

Mistral Small 3 24B Base has more recent training data (up to 2023-10-01), making it potentially better informed about events through that date compared to Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct (2023-06-30).

Mistral Small 3 24B Base

Oct 2023

4 mo newer
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Jun 2023

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Mistral Small 3 24B Base and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Mistral Small 3 24B Base
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Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
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FAQ

Common questions about Mistral Small 3 24B Base vs Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct.

Which is better, Mistral Small 3 24B Base or Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct leads the LLM Stats Score 14.3 to -0.3. Mistral Small 3 24B Base is made by Mistral AI and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct is made by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Mistral Small 3 24B Base compare to Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct in benchmarks?

Mistral Small 3 24B Base scores ARC-C: 91.3%, GSM8k: 80.7%, MMLU: 80.7%, TriviaQA: 80.3%, MBPP: 69.6%. Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct scores DocVQAtest: 96.5%, VCR_en_easy: 91.9%, ChartQA: 88.3%, OCRBench: 87.7%, MMBench: 86.5%.

What are the main differences between Mistral Small 3 24B Base and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (-0.3 vs 14.3), licensing (Apache 2.0 vs tongyi-qianwen). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Mistral Small 3 24B Base and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

Mistral Small 3 24B Base is developed by Mistral AI and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

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