Mistral 8x7B v0.2 vs Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

Mistral 8x7B v0.2· Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.5-35B-A3B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mistral 8x7B v0.2 only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 68 to 31. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 72.6 against 13.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 12% to 74.6%.

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Mistral 8x7B v0.2 is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 32K for Mistral 8x7B v0.2.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context32K262K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkMistral 8x7B v0.2Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
AgenticQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins
Terminal-Bench 2.024%40.5%
BrowseComp34%61%
OSWorld-Verified28%54.5%
tau2-bench81.2%
CodingQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins
HumanEval21%
SWE-bench Verified16%69.2%
LiveCodeBench12%74.6%
SWE-bench Pro14%
Multimodal & GroundedQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins
MMMU-Pro26%75.1%
OfficeQA Pro40%
ReasoningQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins
MuSR25%
BBH62%
LongBench v239%59%
MRCRv238%
KnowledgeQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins
MMLU29%
GPQA28%84.2%
SuperGPQA26%63.4%
MMLU-Pro52%85.3%
HLE3%
FrontierScience35%
SimpleQA27%
Instruction FollowingQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins
IFEval67%91.9%
MultilingualQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins
MGSM62%
MMLU-ProX57%81%
Mathematics
AIME 202329%
AIME 202431%
AIME 202530%
HMMT Feb 202325%
HMMT Feb 202427%
HMMT Feb 202526%
BRUMO 202528%
MATH-50059%
Frequently Asked Questions (8)

Which is better, Mistral 8x7B v0.2 or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is ahead overall, 68 to 31. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 12% and 74.6%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Mistral 8x7B v0.2 or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.3 versus 28.4. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Mistral 8x7B v0.2 or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 72.6 versus 13.7. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Mistral 8x7B v0.2 or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 59 versus 34.9. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Mistral 8x7B v0.2 or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 50.5 versus 27.9. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Mistral 8x7B v0.2 or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.1 versus 32.3. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Mistral 8x7B v0.2 or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 91.9 versus 67. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Mistral 8x7B v0.2 or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81 versus 58.8. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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