Model comparison
Magistral Medium vs Qwen3.5 Plus
Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.
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Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.5 Plus leads 32.8 to 8.6.
- Qwen3.5 Plus is cheaper at $0.40 / $2.40 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $5 for Magistral Medium.
- Qwen3.5 Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
- Magistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 35.2 | 42.9 |
| Released | 2025-03-17 | 2026-02-16 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 262K | 1M |
| Max output | 16K | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2 | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $5 | $2.40 |
| Results tracked | 22 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 39.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1319 | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 621.92 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Magistral Medium: —, Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 0.54 |
Reasoning Qwen3.5 Plus leads
Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348), Qwen3.5 Plus: 32.8 (#74)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 16.2% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 6.1% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 22% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1267 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 17% |
| DTBench | — | 80.5% |
| LMCA | — | 36.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 146.78 |
Math Qwen3.5 Plus leads
Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189), Qwen3.5 Plus: 49.6 (#61)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 86.7% |
| LMArena Math | 1250 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 21% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 2.1% |
Knowledge Qwen3.5 Plus leads
Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202), Qwen3.5 Plus: 46.0 (#83)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 84.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 25.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 10.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1254 | — |
Long Context Qwen3.5 Plus leads
Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183), Qwen3.5 Plus: 43.0 (#113)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| CL-bench | — | 19.8% |
| CL-bench Life | — | 12.4% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1295 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1245 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Medium better than Qwen3.5 Plus?
Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Magistral Medium or Qwen3.5 Plus?
Qwen3.5 Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $2.40 per million output tokens; Magistral Medium lists at $2 and $5.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen3.5 Plus does, with 1M tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Medium and Qwen3.5 Plus share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Plus has 15.