Model comparison
Magistral Small vs Mixtral 8x22B
Magistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.2 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Magistral Small scores higher in 3 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Magistral Small leads 30.9 to 15.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 56.1% for Magistral Small and 34.1% for Mixtral 8x22B.
- Magistral Small is cheaper at $0.50 / $1.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Mixtral 8x22B.
- Magistral Small accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 64K.
Side by side
| Magistral Small | Mixtral 8x22B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | 27.1 |
| Released | 2025-06-10 | 2024-04-17 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 64K |
| Max output | 40K | 64K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.50 | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.50 | $6 |
| Results tracked | 10 | 34 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Small leads
Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176), Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 35.2% | — |
| WeirdML | — | 3.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 40.6% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1166 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 50.2% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 72% |
| MBPP+ | — | 64.3% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |
Reasoning Mixtral 8x22B leads
Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350), Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 61.3% | 55.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.19 | 122.03 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 6.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 3% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1150 |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
Math Magistral Small leads
Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261), Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 30% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 16.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1184 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 24.2% |
Knowledge Magistral Small leads
Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223), Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 56.1% | 34.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 46% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 33.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1113 |
| MMLU | — | 77.8% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1128 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1116 |
| LMArena French | — | 1166 |
| LMArena German | — | 1141 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1037 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1057 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1158 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1151 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 72.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1147 |
Long Context Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1144 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1162 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1141 |
| WildBench | — | 71.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1130 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Small better than Mixtral 8x22B?
Magistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.2 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Magistral Small or Mixtral 8x22B?
Magistral Small is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x22B lists at $2 and $6.
Is Magistral Small or Mixtral 8x22B better for coding?
Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Magistral Small does, with 128K tokens against 64K.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Small and Mixtral 8x22B share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Small has 10 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.