Model comparison
Llama 3.1-405B vs Magistral Medium
Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.8 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
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Mistral AISummary
- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3.1-405B scores higher in 2 categories and Magistral Medium in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Magistral Medium leads 32.4 to 17.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 45% for Llama 3.1-405B and 16.2% for Magistral Medium.
Side by side
| Llama 3.1-405B | Magistral Medium | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 34.8 |
| Released | 2024-07-23 | 2025-03-17 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $5 |
| Results tracked | 42 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Medium leads
Llama 3.1-405B: 32.7 (#257), Magistral Medium: 38.6 (#161)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1291 | 1319 |
| SciCode | — | 39.2% |
| WeirdML | 21.4% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Llama 3.1-405B: 20.9 (#131), Magistral Medium: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 7.4% | — |
| Cybench | 7.5% | — |
Reasoning Llama 3.1-405B leads
Llama 3.1-405B: 16.4 (#293), Magistral Medium: 8.7 (#342)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 45% | 16.2% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1270 | 1267 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| SimpleBench | 23% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 6.1% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| DTBench | 61.4% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 82.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 128.76 | — |
| ForecastBench | 59.9 | — |
| HellaSwag | 89.2% | — |
| PIQA | 85.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 89.2% | — |
Math Magistral Medium leads
Llama 3.1-405B: 17.3 (#283), Magistral Medium: 32.4 (#187)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1281 | 1249 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 9.7% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 24.9% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 49.8% | — |
Knowledge Magistral Medium leads
Llama 3.1-405B: 30.4 (#221), Magistral Medium: 32.9 (#199)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1243 | 1222 |
| GPQA Diamond | 50.9% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 72.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 17.6% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 52.2% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 95.3% | — |
| MMLU | 84.5% | — |
| TriviaQA | 82.7% | — |
Multilingual Llama 3.1-405B leads
Llama 3.1-405B: 40.9 (#209), Magistral Medium: 39.8 (#219)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1248 | 1232 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1242 | 1225 |
| LMArena French | 1278 | 1268 |
| LMArena German | 1252 | 1248 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1208 | 1176 |
| LMArena Korean | 1184 | 1125 |
| LMArena Russian | 1265 | 1224 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1259 | 1269 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Llama 3.1-405B: 66.1 (#209), Magistral Medium: 66.2 (#207)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1259 | 1254 |
| IFEval | 81.1% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Llama 3.1-405B: 38.4 (#192), Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#178)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1266 | 1295 |
Writing & Preference Magistral Medium leads
Llama 3.1-405B: 39.1 (#246), Magistral Medium: 46.5 (#214)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1284 | 1255 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1262 | 1245 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1297 | 1275 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 870 | — |
| WildBench | 78.3% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 3.1-405B better than Magistral Medium?
Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.8 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Llama 3.1-405B or Magistral Medium better for coding?
Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.6 versus 32.7 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Llama 3.1-405B and Magistral Medium share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.1-405B has 42 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Medium has 22.