Model comparison
Claude 2.1 vs Magistral Medium
Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- The widest gap is in math, where Magistral Medium leads 35.1 to 10.2.
- Magistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 2.1 | Magistral Medium | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 25.2 | 35.2 |
| Released | 2023-11-21 | 2025-03-17 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $5 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Medium leads
Claude 2.1: 26.2 (#327), Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 39.2% |
| WeirdML | 7.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1319 |
Reasoning Claude 2.1 leads
Claude 2.1: 21.4 (#221), Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 16.2% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 6.1% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1267 |
| DTBench | 51% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.27 | — |
| ForecastBench | 54.2 | — |
Math Magistral Medium leads
Claude 2.1: 10.2 (#315), Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.9% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1250 |
Knowledge Magistral Medium leads
Claude 2.1: 15.4 (#292), Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1223 |
| MMLU | 73.5% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1232 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1227 |
| LMArena French | — | 1267 |
| LMArena German | — | 1248 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1175 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1125 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1224 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1271 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1254 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1295 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1255 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1245 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1275 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 2.1 better than Magistral Medium?
Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 2.1 or Magistral Medium better for coding?
Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 26.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 2.1 and Magistral Medium share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2.1 has 7 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Medium has 22.