Model comparison
Llama 3.1-405B vs Magistral Small
Llama 3.1-405B and Magistral Small score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3.1-405B scores higher in 1 category and Magistral Small in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Llama 3.1-405B leads 16.4 to 6.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 45% for Llama 3.1-405B and 6.3% for Magistral Small.
Side by side
| Llama 3.1-405B | Magistral Small | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 29.9 |
| Released | 2024-07-23 | 2025-06-10 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 40K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.50 |
| Results tracked | 42 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Small leads
Llama 3.1-405B: 32.7 (#257), Magistral Small: 37.8 (#172)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 35.2% |
| WeirdML | 21.4% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1291 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Llama 3.1-405B: 20.9 (#131), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 7.4% | — |
| Cybench | 7.5% | — |
Reasoning Llama 3.1-405B leads
Llama 3.1-405B: 16.4 (#293), Magistral Small: 6.9 (#345)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 45% | 6.3% |
| DTBench | 61.4% | 61.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 128.76 | 133.19 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| SimpleBench | 23% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 5% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1270 | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 82.9% | — |
| ForecastBench | 59.9 | — |
| HellaSwag | 89.2% | — |
| PIQA | 85.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 89.2% | — |
Math Magistral Small leads
Llama 3.1-405B: 17.3 (#283), Magistral Small: 24.9 (#253)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 9.7% | 30% |
| Omni-MATH | 24.9% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1281 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 49.8% | — |
Knowledge Too close to call
Llama 3.1-405B: 30.4 (#221), Magistral Small: 30.9 (#215)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 50.9% | 56.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 72.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 17.6% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 52.2% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1243 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 95.3% | — |
| MMLU | 84.5% | — |
| TriviaQA | 82.7% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Llama 3.1-405B: 40.9 (#209), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1248 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1242 | — |
| LMArena French | 1278 | — |
| LMArena German | 1252 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1208 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1184 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1265 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1259 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Llama 3.1-405B: 66.1 (#209), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 81.1% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1259 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Llama 3.1-405B: 38.4 (#192), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1266 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Llama 3.1-405B: 39.1 (#246), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1-405B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1284 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1262 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 870 | — |
| WildBench | 78.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1297 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 3.1-405B better than Magistral Small?
Llama 3.1-405B and Magistral Small score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Llama 3.1-405B or Magistral Small better for coding?
Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.8 versus 32.7 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Llama 3.1-405B and Magistral Small share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.1-405B has 42 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Small has 10.