Mistral Small 4 vs Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

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· Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.5-122B-A10B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mistral Small 4 only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 71 to 64. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 81.6 against 58.9. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 45.3% to 86.6%.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Mistral Small 4 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. Qwen3.5-122B-A10B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 256K for Mistral Small 4.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
Speed175 t/sN/A
TTFT0.64sN/A
Context256K262K

Decision framing

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Runtime metrics show N/A when BenchLM does not have a sourced snapshot for that exact model. The scoring rules and freshness policy are documented on the methodology page.

BenchmarkMistral Small 4Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.049.4%
BrowseComp63.8%
OSWorld-Verified58%
tau2-bench79.5%
Coding
HumanEval84.8%
SWE-bench Verified72%
LiveCodeBench78.9%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro76.9%
Reasoning
LongBench v260.2%
KnowledgeQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
GPQA45.3%86.6%
MMLU-Pro66.3%86.7%
SuperGPQA67.1%
Instruction FollowingQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
IFEval82.9%93.4%
Multilingual
MMLU-ProX82.2%
Mathematics
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Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Which is better, Mistral Small 4 or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is ahead overall, 71 to 64. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 45.3% and 86.6%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Mistral Small 4 or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.6 versus 58.9. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Mistral Small 4 or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 93.4 versus 82.9. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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