Model comparison
Grok-2 (Dec 2024) vs Magistral Medium
Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok-2 (Dec 2024) scores higher in 4 categories and Magistral Medium in 4 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Magistral Medium leads 35.1 to 20.8.
- Magistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Magistral Medium | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 35.2 |
| Released | 2024-08-13 | 2025-03-17 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $5 |
| Results tracked | 34 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Medium leads
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 33.3 (#258), Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1287 | 1319 |
| SciCode | — | 39.2% |
| WeirdML | 22.2% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 46.4% | — |
Reasoning Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 16.9 (#299), Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1272 | 1267 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| SimpleBench | 22.7% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 16.2% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 6.1% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 54.8% | — |
| DTBench | 65.2% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 54.5% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 130.48 | — |
| LiveBench | 54.3% | — |
Math Magistral Medium leads
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 20.8 (#284), Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1283 | 1250 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 11.5% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 54.9% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 63.5% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.7% | — |
Knowledge Magistral Medium leads
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 29.8 (#233), Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1254 | 1223 |
| GPQA Diamond | 53.8% | — |
| Confabulations | 20.1% | — |
Multilingual Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 43.1 (#188), Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1282 | 1232 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1289 | 1227 |
| LMArena French | 1318 | 1267 |
| LMArena German | 1287 | 1248 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1244 | 1175 |
| LMArena Korean | 1237 | 1125 |
| LMArena Russian | 1286 | 1224 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1281 | 1271 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 66.9 (#202), Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1270 | 1254 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 69.6% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 38.8 (#190), Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1276 | 1295 |
Writing & Preference Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 48.6 (#198), Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1305 | 1255 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1284 | 1245 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1290 | 1275 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 63.6% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 45.6% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok-2 (Dec 2024) better than Magistral Medium?
Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is Grok-2 (Dec 2024) or Magistral Medium better for coding?
Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 33.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Grok-2 (Dec 2024) and Magistral Medium share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok-2 (Dec 2024) has 34 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Medium has 22.