Model comparison
Magistral Medium vs QwQ-32B
QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 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 QwQ-32B in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where QwQ-32B leads 23.7 to 8.6.
Side by side
| Magistral Medium | QwQ-32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 35.2 | 39.8 |
| Released | 2025-03-17 | 2024-11-28 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | — |
| Max output | 16K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $5 | — |
| Results tracked | 22 | 36 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Medium leads
Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1319 | 1333 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| SciCode | 39.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 44.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.4% |
Reasoning QwQ-32B leads
Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1267 | 1325 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 16.2% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 6.1% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 137.6 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.3 |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |
Math QwQ-32B leads
Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1250 | 1359 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 59.2% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |
Knowledge QwQ-32B leads
Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1324 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 65.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |
Multilingual QwQ-32B leads
Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1232 | 1305 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1227 | 1378 |
| LMArena French | 1267 | 1336 |
| LMArena German | 1248 | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | 1262 |
| LMArena Korean | 1125 | 1279 |
| LMArena Russian | 1224 | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1271 | 1354 |
Instruction Following QwQ-32B leads
Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1254 | 1297 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |
Long Context QwQ-32B leads
Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1295 | 1308 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |
Writing & Preference QwQ-32B leads
Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1245 | 1288 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1257 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Medium better than QwQ-32B?
QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Magistral Medium or QwQ-32B better for coding?
Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Medium and QwQ-32B share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.