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Magistral Medium vs Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.2 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Magistral Medium Mistral AI

35.2

Rank #227 Confirmed

Mistral Medium 3.5 Mistral AI

40.2

Rank #152 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Magistral Medium scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Medium 3.5 in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Mistral Medium 3.5 leads 51.9 to 39.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 16.2% for Magistral Medium and 41.4% for Mistral Medium 3.5.
  • Magistral Medium is cheaper at $2 / $5 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium 3.5.

Side by side

Magistral MediumMistral Medium 3.5
ProviderMistral AIMistral AI
Noometry Index35.240.2
Released2025-03-17—
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K262K
Max output16K210K
Input $ / M tokens$2$1.50
Output $ / M tokens$5$7.50
Results tracked2222

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Category by category

Coding Magistral Medium leads

Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161), Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.0 (#213)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Coding13191461
LMArena WebDev—1264
SciCode39.2%—

Reasoning Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348), Mistral Medium 3.5: 17.3 (#295)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumMistral Medium 3.5
Kagi LLM Benchmark16.2%41.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts12671436
ARC-AGI-20%—
NYT Connections (extended)—12.9%
ARC-AGI-16.1%—
CritPt0.3%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—141.35

Math Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189), Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.1 (#113)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Math12501431

Knowledge Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202), Mistral Medium 3.5: 40.0 (#126)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Expert12231432

Multimodal Not comparable

Magistral Medium: —, Mistral Medium 3.5: 38.3 (#65)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Vision—1223

Multilingual Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224), Mistral Medium 3.5: 51.9 (#100)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Non-English12321404
LMArena Chinese12271442
LMArena French12671448
LMArena German12481451
LMArena Korean11251385
LMArena Russian12241395
LMArena Spanish12711409
LMArena Japanese1175—

Instruction Following Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211), Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.6 (#90)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Instruction Following12541415

Long Context Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183), Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#103)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Longer Query12951415

Writing & Preference Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219), Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.5 (#117)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text12551421
LMArena Creative Writing12451374
LMArena Multi-Turn12751423
EQ-Bench 4—993

Frequently asked questions

Is Magistral Medium better than Mistral Medium 3.5?

Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.2 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Magistral Medium or Mistral Medium 3.5?

Magistral Medium is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.5 lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

Is Magistral Medium or Mistral Medium 3.5 better for coding?

Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 36.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 262K tokens.

How many benchmarks do Magistral Medium and Mistral Medium 3.5 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22.

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