Model comparison
Magistral Medium vs Mistral Nemo
Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 18× 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 knowledge, where Magistral Medium leads 33.5 to 12.3.
- Mistral Nemo is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $5 for Magistral Medium.
- Magistral Medium accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Magistral Medium | Mistral Nemo | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 35.2 | 26.4 |
| Released | 2025-03-17 | 2024-07-01 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | 128K |
| Max output | 16K | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2 | $0.15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $5 | $0.15 |
| Results tracked | 22 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161), Mistral Nemo: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 39.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1319 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Magistral Medium: —, Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 27.6% |
| BALROG | — | 17.6% |
Reasoning Mistral Nemo leads
Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348), Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 16.2% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 6.1% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1267 | — |
| DTBench | — | 48.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.68 |
| PIQA | — | 83.5% |
Math Magistral Medium leads
Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189), Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1250 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 10.8% |
| GSM8K | — | 84.2% |
Knowledge Magistral Medium leads
Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202), Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 29.9% |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | — |
| BoolQ | — | 82.5% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224), Mistral Nemo: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Nemo: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1254 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183), Mistral Nemo: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1295 | — |
Writing & Preference Magistral Medium leads
Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219), Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1245 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 881 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Medium better than Mistral Nemo?
Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 18× 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 Nemo?
Mistral Nemo is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Magistral Medium lists at $2 and $5.
Which has the bigger context window?
Magistral Medium does, with 262K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Medium and Mistral Nemo share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Nemo has 10.