Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Mistral Large 3
60
3/8 categoriesQwen3.5-35B-A3B
68
Winner · 4/8 categoriesMistral Large 3· Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
Pick Qwen3.5-35B-A3B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mistral Large 3 only becomes the better choice if reasoning is the priority or 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 60. 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 knowledge, where it averages 79.3 against 48.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 43.9% to 84.2%. Mistral Large 3 does hit back in reasoning, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Mistral Large 3 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $2.00 input / $6.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Qwen3.5-35B-A3B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Mistral Large 3 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 128K for Mistral Large 3.
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| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| AgenticMistral Large 3 wins | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 52% | 40.5% |
| BrowseComp | 58% | 61% |
| OSWorld-Verified | 49% | 54.5% |
| tau2-bench | — | 81.2% |
| CodingQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins | ||
| HumanEval | 92.3% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified | 45% | 69.2% |
| LiveCodeBench | 39% | 74.6% |
| SWE-bench Pro | 42% | — |
| Multimodal & GroundedMistral Large 3 wins | ||
| MMMU-Pro | 75% | 75.1% |
| OfficeQA Pro | 76% | — |
| ReasoningMistral Large 3 wins | ||
| MuSR | 71% | — |
| BBH | 81% | — |
| LongBench v2 | 67% | 59% |
| MRCRv2 | 67% | — |
| KnowledgeQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins | ||
| MMLU | 85.5% | — |
| GPQA | 43.9% | 84.2% |
| SuperGPQA | 73% | 63.4% |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.1% | 85.3% |
| HLE | 12% | — |
| FrontierScience | 67% | — |
| SimpleQA | 24% | — |
| Instruction FollowingQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins | ||
| IFEval | 89.4% | 91.9% |
| MultilingualQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins | ||
| MGSM | 82% | — |
| MMLU-ProX | 77% | 81% |
| Mathematics | ||
| AIME 2023 | 76% | — |
| AIME 2024 | 78% | — |
| AIME 2025 | 77% | — |
| HMMT Feb 2023 | 72% | — |
| HMMT Feb 2024 | 74% | — |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 73% | — |
| BRUMO 2025 | 75% | — |
| MATH-500 | 93.6% | — |
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is ahead overall, 68 to 60. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 43.9% and 84.2%.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.3 versus 48.1. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 72.6 versus 41.5. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Mistral Large 3 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 68.1 versus 59. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Mistral Large 3 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.5 versus 50.5. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Mistral Large 3 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.5 versus 75.1. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 91.9 versus 89.4. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81 versus 78.8. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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