Model comparison
Magistral Small vs Qwen1.5-72B
Magistral Small and Qwen1.5-72B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 30.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Magistral Small scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen1.5-72B in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Magistral Small leads 30.9 to 11.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 56.1% for Magistral Small and 28.8% for Qwen1.5-72B.
Side by side
| Magistral Small | Qwen1.5-72B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 30.3 |
| Released | 2025-06-10 | 2024-02-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| 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: 37.8 (#172), Qwen1.5-72B: 31.4 (#272)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 35.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 33.2% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1166 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 40.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 59.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 61.6% |
Reasoning Qwen1.5-72B leads
Magistral Small: 6.9 (#345), Qwen1.5-72B: 21.2 (#201)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 6.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 3% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1148 |
| DTBench | 61.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.19 | — |
Math Qwen1.5-72B leads
Magistral Small: 24.9 (#253), Qwen1.5-72B: 30.7 (#205)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 30% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1164 |
Knowledge Magistral Small leads
Magistral Small: 30.9 (#215), Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#295)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 56.1% | 28.8% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1136 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 33.4 (#248)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1135 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1186 |
| LMArena French | — | 1158 |
| LMArena German | — | 1084 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1061 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1049 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1104 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1110 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 59.6 (#251)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1142 |
Long Context Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 35.0 (#238)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1157 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 37.4 (#253)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1166 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1137 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1160 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Small better than Qwen1.5-72B?
Magistral Small and Qwen1.5-72B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 30.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Magistral Small or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?
Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.8 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Small and Qwen1.5-72B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Magistral Small has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.