Model comparison
Magistral Small vs Qwen-14B
Qwen-14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Magistral Small scores higher in 1 category and Qwen-14B in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen-14B leads 19.6 to 6.8.
Side by side
| Magistral Small | Qwen-14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | 31.4 |
| Released | 2025-06-10 | 2023-09-24 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 40K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.50 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.50 | — |
| Results tracked | 10 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Small leads
Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176), Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#288)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 35.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1071 |
Reasoning Qwen-14B leads
Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350), Qwen-14B: 19.6 (#257)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.19 | 113.03 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 6.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 3% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1027 |
| DTBench | 61.3% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 55% |
| LAMBADA | — | 71.1% |
| PIQA | — | 79.9% |
Math Qwen-14B leads
Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261), Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#227)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 30% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1068 |
| GSM8K | — | 61.3% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223), Qwen-14B: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 56.1% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 84.4% |
| BoolQ | — | 86.2% |
| MMLU | — | 66.3% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen-14B: 27.5 (#275)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1041 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1077 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen-14B: 52.4 (#289)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1031 |
Long Context Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen-14B: 31.3 (#280)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1028 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen-14B: 27.6 (#299)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1051 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1028 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1022 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Small better than Qwen-14B?
Qwen-14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Magistral Small or Qwen-14B better for coding?
Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 versus 31.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Small and Qwen-14B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Magistral Small has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-14B has 18.