Model comparison
Magistral Medium vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index. Qwen2.5 7B Instruct costs 9.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Magistral Medium's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
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Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in math, where Magistral Medium leads 35.1 to 12.6.
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is cheaper at $0.17 / $0.70 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $5 for Magistral Medium.
- Magistral Medium accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.
Side by side
| Magistral Medium | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 35.2 | 29.0 |
| Released | 2025-03-17 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | 131K |
| Max output | 16K | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2 | $0.17 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $5 | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 22 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Medium leads
Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 36.5 (#208)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 39.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1319 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.1% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Magistral Medium: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.8 (#124)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 7.8% |
Reasoning Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.8 (#322)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 16.2% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 6.1% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1267 | — |
| DTBench | — | 47.7% |
| LMCA | — | 6.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.51 |
Math Magistral Medium leads
Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 12.6 (#306)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 29.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1250 | — |
Knowledge Magistral Medium leads
Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#286)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 35.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 53.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 34.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | — |
| MMLU | — | 72.9% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Magistral Medium leads
Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.2 (#231)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 74.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1254 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1295 | — |
Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#195)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1245 | — |
| WildBench | — | 73.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Medium better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?
Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index. Qwen2.5 7B Instruct costs 9.0× 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 Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.17 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens; Magistral Medium lists at $2 and $5.
Is Magistral Medium or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?
Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 36.5 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Magistral Medium does, with 262K tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Medium and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.