Model comparison
Magistral Medium vs Mixtral 8x7B
Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index. Mixtral 8x7B costs 3.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Magistral Medium's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Magistral Medium scores higher in 7 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Magistral Medium leads 33.5 to 11.0.
- Mixtral 8x7B is cheaper at $0.70 / $0.70 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $5 for Magistral Medium.
- Magistral Medium accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 32K.
Side by side
| Magistral Medium | Mixtral 8x7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 35.2 | 27.1 |
| Released | 2025-03-17 | 2023-12-11 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | 32K |
| Max output | 16K | 32K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2 | $0.70 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $5 | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 22 | 38 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Medium leads
Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1319 | 1126 |
| SciCode | 39.2% | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 39.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 49.7% |
Reasoning Mixtral 8x7B leads
Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1267 | 1115 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 16.2% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 6.1% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| DTBench | — | 49.6% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.47 |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
| HellaSwag | — | 86.7% |
| PIQA | — | 83.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 77.2% |
Math Magistral Medium leads
Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1250 | 1147 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 10.5% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 10% |
| GSM8K | — | 74.4% |
Knowledge Magistral Medium leads
Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202), Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1088 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 30.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 33.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 29.6% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 87.3% |
| MMLU | — | 70.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 85.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 82.2% |
Multilingual Magistral Medium leads
Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224), Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1232 | 1077 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1227 | 1055 |
| LMArena French | 1267 | 1166 |
| LMArena German | 1248 | 1114 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | 931 |
| LMArena Korean | 1125 | 968 |
| LMArena Russian | 1224 | 1090 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1271 | 1111 |
Instruction Following Magistral Medium leads
Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211), Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1254 | 1109 |
| IFEval | — | 57.5% |
Long Context Magistral Medium leads
Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183), Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1295 | 1103 |
Writing & Preference Magistral Medium leads
Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | 1132 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1245 | 1109 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1115 |
| WildBench | — | 67.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Medium better than Mixtral 8x7B?
Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index. Mixtral 8x7B costs 3.9× 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 Mixtral 8x7B?
Mixtral 8x7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.70 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens; Magistral Medium lists at $2 and $5.
Is Magistral Medium or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?
Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 32.8 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Magistral Medium does, with 262K tokens against 32K.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Medium and Mixtral 8x7B share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.