Model comparison
Magistral Small vs Qwen1.5-7B
Magistral Small and Qwen1.5-7B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 30.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen1.5-7B leads 19.5 to 6.9.
Side by side
| Magistral Small | Qwen1.5-7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 30.8 |
| 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 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Small leads
Magistral Small: 37.8 (#172), Qwen1.5-7B: 31.6 (#271)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 35.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1107 |
Reasoning Qwen1.5-7B leads
Magistral Small: 6.9 (#345), Qwen1.5-7B: 19.5 (#237)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 6.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 3% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1066 |
| DTBench | 61.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.19 | — |
Math Qwen1.5-7B leads
Magistral Small: 24.9 (#253), Qwen1.5-7B: 29.0 (#222)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 30% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1080 |
Knowledge Magistral Small leads
Magistral Small: 30.9 (#215), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.2 (#239)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 56.1% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1055 |
| MMLU | — | 62.6% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen1.5-7B: 28.6 (#266)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1058 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1140 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1006 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen1.5-7B: 54.4 (#276)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1058 |
Long Context Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen1.5-7B: 33.1 (#261)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1090 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen1.5-7B: 29.8 (#288)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1084 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1035 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1061 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Small better than Qwen1.5-7B?
Magistral Small and Qwen1.5-7B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 30.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Magistral Small or Qwen1.5-7B better for coding?
Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.8 versus 31.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Small and Qwen1.5-7B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Small has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-7B has 13.