Model comparison
Magistral Medium vs Qwen3.5 27B
Qwen3.5 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.9 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Magistral Medium scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.5 27B in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.5 27B leads 27.5 to 8.6.
- Qwen3.5 27B is cheaper at $0.30 / $2.40 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $5 for Magistral Medium.
Side by side
| Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 27B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 35.2 | 41.9 |
| Released | 2025-03-17 | 2026-02-23 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | 262K |
| Max output | 16K | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2 | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $5 | $2.40 |
| Results tracked | 22 | 28 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161), Qwen3.5 27B: 38.9 (#168)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1319 | 1427 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1358 |
| SciCode | 39.2% | — |
| WeirdML | — | 39.5% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 349.45 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Magistral Medium: —, Qwen3.5 27B: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 201.98 |
Reasoning Qwen3.5 27B leads
Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348), Qwen3.5 27B: 27.5 (#117)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1267 | 1414 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 16.2% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 47.9% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 6.1% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 45.5% |
| DTBench | — | 82.4% |
| LMCA | — | 34% |
Math Qwen3.5 27B leads
Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189), Qwen3.5 27B: 38.8 (#127)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1250 | 1429 |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 56.7% |
Knowledge Qwen3.5 27B leads
Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202), Qwen3.5 27B: 38.0 (#150)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1428 |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 12.1% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Magistral Medium: —, Qwen3.5 27B: 39.4 (#59)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1241 |
Multilingual Qwen3.5 27B leads
Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224), Qwen3.5 27B: 50.8 (#115)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1232 | 1390 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1227 | 1478 |
| LMArena French | 1267 | 1410 |
| LMArena German | 1248 | 1393 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | 1345 |
| LMArena Korean | 1125 | 1358 |
| LMArena Russian | 1224 | 1390 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1271 | 1407 |
Instruction Following Qwen3.5 27B leads
Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211), Qwen3.5 27B: 73.5 (#119)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1254 | 1393 |
Long Context Qwen3.5 27B leads
Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183), Qwen3.5 27B: 43.1 (#106)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1295 | 1413 |
Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 27B leads
Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219), Qwen3.5 27B: 59.3 (#111)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | 1409 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1245 | 1362 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1410 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Medium better than Qwen3.5 27B?
Qwen3.5 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.9 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Magistral Medium or Qwen3.5 27B?
Qwen3.5 27B is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.40 per million output tokens; Magistral Medium lists at $2 and $5.
Is Magistral Medium or Qwen3.5 27B 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?
Both accept 262K tokens.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Medium and Qwen3.5 27B share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 27B has 28.