Model comparison

GPT-5.1-Codex vs Magistral Medium

GPT-5.1-Codex is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.1-Codex OpenAI

38.6

Rank #186 Reported

Magistral Medium Mistral AI

35.2

Rank #227 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in math, where Magistral Medium leads 35.1 to 30.3.
  • Magistral Medium is cheaper at $2 / $5 per million input/output tokens, against $1.25 / $10 for GPT-5.1-Codex.
  • GPT-5.1-Codex accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 262K.
  • Magistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.1-Codex and Magistral Medium specifications
GPT-5.1-CodexMagistral Medium
ProviderOpenAIMistral AI
Noometry Index38.635.2
Released2025-11-122025-03-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K262K
Max output128K16K
Input $ / M tokens$1.25$2
Output $ / M tokens$10$5
Results tracked622

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.1-Codex leads

GPT-5.1-Codex: 41.9 (#116), Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1-CodexMagistral Medium
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)66%—
LMArena WebDev1337—
SciCode—39.2%
LMArena Coding—1319
ALE-Bench1,245—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.1-Codex: 38.0 (#33), Magistral Medium: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1-CodexMagistral Medium
Terminal-Bench60.4%—
METR Time Horizons70.8%—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-5.1-Codex: —, Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1-CodexMagistral Medium
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—16.2%
ARC-AGI-1—6.1%
CritPt—0.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1267

Math Magistral Medium leads

GPT-5.1-Codex: 30.3 (#235), Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1-CodexMagistral Medium
ProofBench9%—
LMArena Math—1250

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5.1-Codex: —, Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1-CodexMagistral Medium
LMArena Expert—1223

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.1-Codex: —, Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1-CodexMagistral 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

GPT-5.1-Codex: —, Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1-CodexMagistral Medium
LMArena Instruction Following—1254

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.1-Codex: —, Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1-CodexMagistral Medium
LMArena Longer Query—1295

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.1-Codex: —, Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1-CodexMagistral Medium
LMArena Text—1255
LMArena Creative Writing—1245
LMArena Multi-Turn—1275

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.1-Codex better than Magistral Medium?

GPT-5.1-Codex is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.1-Codex or Magistral Medium?

Magistral Medium is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens; GPT-5.1-Codex lists at $1.25 and $10.

Is GPT-5.1-Codex or Magistral Medium better for coding?

GPT-5.1-Codex scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 39.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.1-Codex does, with 400K tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.1-Codex and Magistral Medium share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.1-Codex has 6 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Medium has 22.

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