Model comparison
Magistral Medium vs Mistral Medium 3.1
Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Medium 3.1 costs 3.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Magistral Medium's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
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- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium 3.1 leads 55.5 to 46.3.
- Mistral Medium 3.1 is cheaper at $0.40 / $2 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $5 for Magistral Medium.
- Magistral Medium accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.
- Magistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Magistral Medium | Mistral Medium 3.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 35.2 | 31.9 |
| Released | 2025-03-17 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 262K | 131K |
| Max output | 16K | 105K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2 | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $5 | $2 |
| Results tracked | 22 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 39.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1319 | — |
Reasoning Mistral Medium 3.1 leads
Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348), Mistral Medium 3.1: 10.6 (#341)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 16.2% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 6.5% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 6.1% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 20.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1267 | — |
Math Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1250 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| 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
Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1254 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183), Mistral Medium 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1295 | — |
Writing & Preference Mistral Medium 3.1 leads
Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219), Mistral Medium 3.1: 55.5 (#145)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1245 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1476 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Medium better than Mistral Medium 3.1?
Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Medium 3.1 costs 3.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Magistral Medium's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Magistral Medium or Mistral Medium 3.1?
Mistral Medium 3.1 is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens; Magistral Medium lists at $2 and $5.
Which has the bigger context window?
Magistral Medium does, with 262K tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Medium and Mistral Medium 3.1 share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.1 has 3.