Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) 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 Small 4 (Reasoning)· Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.5-35B-A3B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 67 versus 64. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 75.1 against 60. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 60% to 75.1%.

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 256K for Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning).

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context256K262K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkMistral Small 4 (Reasoning)Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.040.5%
BrowseComp61%
OSWorld-Verified54.5%
tau2-bench81.2%
CodingQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins
LiveCodeBench63.6%74.6%
SWE-bench Verified69.2%
Multimodal & GroundedQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins
MMMU-Pro60%75.1%
Reasoning
LongBench v259%
KnowledgeQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins
GPQA71.2%84.2%
MMLU-Pro78%85.3%
SuperGPQA63.4%
Instruction Following
IFEval91.9%
Multilingual
MMLU-ProX81%
Mathematics
AIME 202583.8%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is ahead overall, 67 to 64. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 60% and 75.1%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.3 versus 75.6. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 72.6 versus 63.6. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.1 versus 60. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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