Model comparison
Magistral Small vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 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 Qwen2.5-Coder-32B in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Magistral Small leads 38.4 to 22.6.
- Both cost about the same: $0.50 input and $1.50 output per million tokens.
- Magistral Small accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 33K.
Side by side
| Magistral Small | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | 33.4 |
| Released | 2025-06-10 | 2024-09-18 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 33K |
| Max output | 40K | 29K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.50 | $0.66 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.50 | $1 |
| Results tracked | 10 | 31 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Small leads
Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.6 (#333)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 9% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 16.4% |
| SciCode | 35.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 49% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 56.9% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1276 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 58% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 87.2% |
| MBPP+ | — | 77% |
Reasoning Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads
Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 21.2 (#225)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.19 | 119.49 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 6.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 3% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 42.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1251 |
| DTBench | 61.3% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 49.9% |
| HellaSwag | — | 83% |
| LiveBench | — | 46.2% |
| WinoGrande | — | 80.8% |
Math Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads
Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.3 (#204)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 30% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 46.6% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1251 |
| GSM8K | — | 93% |
Knowledge Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads
Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.4 (#203)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 56.1% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1221 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 70.5% |
| MMLU | — | 79.1% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.8 (#235)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1205 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1222 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1228 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.4 (#245)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 58.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1223 |
Long Context Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#208)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1251 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.6 (#240)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1230 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1174 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1222 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 23.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Small better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Magistral Small or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is cheaper. It lists at $0.66 per million input tokens and $1 per million output tokens; Magistral Small lists at $0.50 and $1.50.
Is Magistral Small or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B better for coding?
Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 versus 22.6 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Magistral Small does, with 128K tokens against 33K.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Small and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Magistral Small has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.