Model comparison
Magistral Medium vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 34.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Magistral Medium scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 30.1 to 8.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 16.2% for Magistral Medium and 66.7% for Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is cheaper at $0.50 / $2 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $5 for Magistral Medium.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Magistral Medium | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 34.8 | 42.5 |
| Released | 2025-03-17 | 2025-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 131K |
| Max output | 16K | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2 | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $5 | $2 |
| Results tracked | 22 | 25 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Magistral Medium: 38.6 (#161), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.9 (#101)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1319 | 1441 |
| SciCode | 39.2% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Magistral Medium: 8.7 (#342), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 30.1 (#79)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 16.2% | 66.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1267 | 1428 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 6.1% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
Math Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Magistral Medium: 32.4 (#187), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 36.3 (#118)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1249 | 1440 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 46.7% |
Knowledge Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Magistral Medium: 32.9 (#199), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.3 (#102)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1222 | 1416 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 63% |
Multilingual Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Magistral Medium: 39.8 (#219), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.3 (#88)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1232 | 1407 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1461 |
| LMArena French | 1268 | 1415 |
| LMArena German | 1248 | 1416 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1176 | 1398 |
| LMArena Korean | 1125 | 1366 |
| LMArena Russian | 1224 | 1403 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1269 | 1436 |
Instruction Following Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Magistral Medium: 66.2 (#207), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 71.0 (#154)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1254 | 1388 |
| IFEval | — | 81% |
Long Context Magistral Medium leads
Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#178), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#218)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1295 | 1403 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 55.6% |
Writing & Preference Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Magistral Medium: 46.5 (#214), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.2 (#116)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | 1417 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1245 | 1333 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1415 |
| WildBench | — | 80.7% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Medium better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 34.8 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Magistral Medium or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens; Magistral Medium lists at $2 and $5.
Is Magistral Medium or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 38.6 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct does, with 131K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Medium and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.