Model comparison
Magistral Medium vs Qwen Plus
Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.1 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Magistral Medium scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen Plus in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen Plus leads 28.4 to 8.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 16.2% for Magistral Medium and 63.3% for Qwen Plus.
- Qwen Plus is cheaper at $0.40 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $5 for Magistral Medium.
- Qwen Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
- Magistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Magistral Medium | Qwen Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 35.2 | 37.1 |
| Released | 2025-03-17 | 2024-01-25 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 262K | 1M |
| Max output | 16K | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2 | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $5 | $1.20 |
| Results tracked | 22 | 20 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161), Qwen Plus: 38.9 (#167)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1319 | 1328 |
| SciCode | 39.2% | — |
Reasoning Qwen Plus leads
Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348), Qwen Plus: 28.4 (#107)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 16.2% | 63.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1267 | 1317 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 6.1% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| DTBench | — | 81.1% |
| LMCA | — | 24% |
Math Magistral Medium leads
Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189), Qwen Plus: 23.3 (#271)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1250 | 1326 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 17.8% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 65.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |
Knowledge Magistral Medium leads
Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202), Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#251)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1328 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 48.1% |
Multilingual Qwen Plus leads
Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224), Qwen Plus: 45.1 (#175)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1232 | 1310 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1227 | 1347 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | 1251 |
| LMArena Russian | 1224 | 1323 |
| LMArena French | 1267 | — |
| LMArena German | 1248 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1125 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1271 | — |
Instruction Following Qwen Plus leads
Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211), Qwen Plus: 68.8 (#181)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1254 | 1303 |
Long Context Too close to call
Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183), Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#158)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1295 | 1324 |
Writing & Preference Qwen Plus leads
Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219), Qwen Plus: 52.2 (#176)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | 1326 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1245 | 1293 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1336 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Medium better than Qwen Plus?
Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.1 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Magistral Medium or Qwen Plus?
Qwen Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Magistral Medium lists at $2 and $5.
Is Magistral Medium or Qwen Plus better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (39.1 vs 38.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen Plus does, with 1M tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Medium and Qwen Plus share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Plus has 20.