Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct vs Qwen2 7B Instruct Comparison

Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

5 benchmarks

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct outperforms in 4 benchmarks (GPQA, HumanEval, MATH, MMLU-Pro), while Qwen2 7B Instruct is better at 1 benchmark (MT-Bench).

Mistral Small 3 24B 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
Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
Input tokens$0.07
Output tokens$0.14
Best providerDeepinfra
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2 7B Instruct
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
Best providerUnknown Organization
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Model Size

Parameter count comparison

16.4B diff

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct has 16.4B more parameters than Qwen2 7B Instruct, making it 215.0% larger.

Mistral AI
Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
24.0Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2 7B Instruct
7.6Bparameters
24.0B
Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
7.6B
Qwen2 7B Instruct

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct specifies input context (32,000 tokens). Only Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct specifies output context (32,000 tokens).

Mistral AI
Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
Input32,000 tokens
Output32,000 tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2 7B Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
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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 Small 3 24B Instruct

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Qwen2 7B Instruct

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct was released on 2025-01-30, while Qwen2 7B Instruct was released on 2024-07-23.

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct is 6 months newer than Qwen2 7B Instruct.

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Jan 30, 2025

1.1 years ago

6mo newer
Qwen2 7B Instruct

Jul 23, 2024

1.6 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2023-10-01, while Qwen2 7B Instruct's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct's training data extends to 2023-10-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without Qwen2 7B Instruct's cutoff date.

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Oct 2023

Qwen2 7B Instruct

Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

Larger context window (32,000 tokens)
Higher GPQA score (45.3% vs 25.3%)
Higher HumanEval score (84.8% vs 79.9%)
Higher MATH score (70.6% vs 49.6%)
Higher MMLU-Pro score (66.3% vs 44.1%)
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Qwen2 7B Instruct

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Higher MT-Bench score (84.1% vs 83.5%)

Detailed Comparison

AI Model Comparison Table
Feature
Mistral AI
Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2 7B Instruct