# Mistral Small 3.1 vs Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Mistral Small 3.1 and Qwen3.5-35B-A3B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/mistral-small-3-1-vs-qwen3-5-35b-a3b
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Treat this as a split decision: use the category and benchmark breakdown to decide which profile better matches your workload.

## Summary

- Mistral Small 3.1 and Qwen3.5-35B-A3B are tied on overall score, so the decision depends on category fit rather than the headline number.
- The clearest category separation is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 18.8 for Mistral Small 3.1 and 64.6 for Qwen3.5-35B-A3B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is GPQA in Knowledge, with scores of 46.0% and 84.2%.
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B also has the larger context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Mistral Small 3.1 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Mistral | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 128K | 262K |
| Overall Score | null | 46 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 7 | 20 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Mistral Small 3.1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 33.8 (Estimated · #80/124)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 40.5% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 61% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 54.5% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 28.96% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Mistral Small 3.1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 25.8 (Estimated · #103/148)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HumanEval | 88.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 69.2% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 74.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Rebench | Coming soon | 53.7% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 40.5% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Mistral Small 3.1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 65.3 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 59% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Mistral Small 3.1 public-lane score: 18.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 64.6 (#42/54)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | 64.0% | 81.4% | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B |
| MMMU-Pro | 49.3% | 75.1% | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B |
| MMVU | Coming soon | 72.3% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 77.5% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 83.9% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 92.7% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Mistral Small 3.1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 43.3 (Supported · #104/181)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU | 80.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 66.8% | 85.3% | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B |
| GPQA | 46.0% | 84.2% | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B |
| SimpleQA | 10.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 63.4% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Mistral Small 3.1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 83.8 (#11/17)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 81% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Mistral Small 3.1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 88.8 (#32/128)

| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.1 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 91.9% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Mistral Small 3.1 or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Mistral Small 3.1 and Qwen3.5-35B-A3B are tied on overall score in the current BenchLM data.

### Where is the biggest gap between Mistral Small 3.1 and Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

The widest category gap is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 18.8 for Mistral Small 3.1 and 64.6 for Qwen3.5-35B-A3B.

### How many benchmarks does Mistral Small 3.1 cover on BenchLM?

Mistral Small 3.1 currently has 7 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.5-35B-A3B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B currently has 20 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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