Model comparison
Magistral Small vs Mistral 7B
Magistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.2 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 3.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Magistral Small's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Magistral Small scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral 7B in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Magistral Small leads 30.9 to 7.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 56.1% for Magistral Small and 15.2% for Mistral 7B.
- Mistral 7B is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $1.50 for Magistral Small.
- Magistral Small accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 8K.
Side by side
| Magistral Small | Mistral 7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | 23.0 |
| Released | 2025-06-10 | 2023-09-27 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 8K |
| Max output | 40K | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.50 | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.50 | $0.25 |
| Results tracked | 10 | 37 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Small leads
Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176), Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 35.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 19.5% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1082 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 36% |
| MBPP+ | — | 42.1% |
Reasoning Mistral 7B leads
Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 3% | 0% |
| DTBench | 61.3% | 42.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.19 | 112.21 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 6.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1067 |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 47.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 56.1% |
| HellaSwag | — | 81% |
| PIQA | — | 83% |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.3% |
Math Magistral Small leads
Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261), Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 30% | 0.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1085 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 3.7% |
| GSM8K | — | 54.4% |
Knowledge Magistral Small leads
Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 56.1% | 15.2% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1036 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 87.4% |
| MMLU | — | 62.5% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 79.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 75.2% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1012 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1009 |
| LMArena French | — | 1037 |
| LMArena German | — | 987 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 878 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1018 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1026 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1060 |
Long Context Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1060 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1090 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1062 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Small better than Mistral 7B?
Magistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.2 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 3.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Magistral Small's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Magistral Small or Mistral 7B?
Mistral 7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; Magistral Small lists at $0.50 and $1.50.
Is Magistral Small or Mistral 7B better for coding?
Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Magistral Small does, with 128K tokens against 8K.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Small and Mistral 7B share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Small has 10 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.