Model comparison
Magistral Small vs o1-mini
o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.0 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Magistral Small scores higher in 1 category and o1-mini in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where o1-mini leads 35.4 to 26.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 30% for Magistral Small and 46.9% for o1-mini.
- Magistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Magistral Small | o1-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | 34.0 |
| Released | 2025-06-10 | 2024-09-12 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 40K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.50 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.50 | — |
| Results tracked | 10 | 39 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Small leads
Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176), o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 32.9% |
| SciCode | 35.2% | — |
| WeirdML | — | 36.3% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 48% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1362 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 89% |
| MBPP+ | — | 78.8% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 10% |
Reasoning o1-mini leads
Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350), o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | 0.8% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5% | 14% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.19 | 135.82 |
| SimpleBench | — | 18.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 6.3% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 3% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 72.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1333 |
| DTBench | 61.3% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 57.9% |
| LiveBench | — | 57.8% |
Math o1-mini leads
Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261), o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 30% | 46.9% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 62% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1358 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 89.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |
Knowledge o1-mini leads
Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223), o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 56.1% | 62.4% |
| Confabulations | — | 18.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1316 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1289 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1314 |
| LMArena French | — | 1293 |
| LMArena German | — | 1278 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1245 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1223 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1283 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1303 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 65.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1304 |
Long Context Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1320 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1317 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1244 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 64.9% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1314 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 40.9% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Small better than o1-mini?
o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.0 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Magistral Small or o1-mini better for coding?
Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Small and o1-mini share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Small has 10 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.