Model comparison
Magistral Small vs Mistral
Magistral Small and Mistral score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.2 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Mistral leads 22.2 to 6.8.
- Magistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Magistral Small | Mistral | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | 29.9 |
| Released | 2025-06-10 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 40K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.50 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.50 | — |
| Results tracked | 10 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Small leads
Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176), Mistral: 33.8 (#250)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 35.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1162 |
Reasoning Mistral leads
Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350), Mistral: 22.2 (#200)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 6.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 3% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1149 |
| DTBench | 61.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.19 | — |
Math Magistral Small leads
Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261), Mistral: 22.3 (#278)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 30% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 7.2% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1180 |
Knowledge Magistral Small leads
Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223), Mistral: 16.6 (#288)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 56.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 27.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 30.3% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1125 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Mistral: 32.8 (#254)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1129 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1109 |
| LMArena French | — | 1180 |
| LMArena German | — | 1155 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1013 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1032 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1168 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1143 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Mistral: 52.6 (#288)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 56.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1152 |
Long Context Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Mistral: 35.0 (#245)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1153 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Mistral: 37.0 (#260)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1165 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1158 |
| WildBench | — | 66% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1147 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Small better than Mistral?
Magistral Small and Mistral score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.2 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Magistral Small or Mistral better for coding?
Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Small and Mistral share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Small has 10 scored results on Noometry and Mistral has 22.