Model comparison
Magistral Medium vs Qwen3.5 Max Preview
Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 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 0 categories and Qwen3.5 Max Preview in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads 30.8 to 8.6.
- Magistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Max Preview | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 35.2 | 45.3 |
| Released | 2025-03-17 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 262K | — |
| Max output | 16K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $5 | — |
| Results tracked | 22 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 44.0 (#77)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1319 | 1487 |
| SciCode | 39.2% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 30.8 (#84)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1267 | 1483 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 16.2% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 6.1% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
Math Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 40.1 (#94)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1250 | 1474 |
Knowledge Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 41.8 (#107)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1489 |
Multilingual Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 56.2 (#22)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1232 | 1465 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1227 | 1534 |
| LMArena French | 1267 | 1484 |
| LMArena German | 1248 | 1487 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | 1495 |
| LMArena Korean | 1125 | 1438 |
| LMArena Russian | 1224 | 1471 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1271 | 1470 |
Instruction Following Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 77.0 (#31)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1254 | 1467 |
Long Context Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 45.2 (#45)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1295 | 1476 |
Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 66.0 (#41)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | 1470 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1245 | 1464 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1478 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Medium better than Qwen3.5 Max Preview?
Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Magistral Medium or Qwen3.5 Max Preview better for coding?
Qwen3.5 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 39.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Medium and Qwen3.5 Max Preview share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Max Preview has 17.