Model comparison
Magistral Small vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
Magistral Small and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.2 vs 29.9), 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 0 categories and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct leads 20.7 to 6.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 6.3% for Magistral Small and 36% for Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct.
- Magistral Small is cheaper at $0.50 / $1.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2.80 / $8.40 for Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct.
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Magistral Small | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | 29.9 |
| Released | 2025-06-10 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 131K |
| Max output | 40K | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.50 | $2.80 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.50 | $8.40 |
| Results tracked | 10 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 35.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 18.6 (#144)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OSWorld | — | 5% |
Reasoning Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct leads
Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 20.7 (#233)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 6.3% | 36% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 3% | — |
| DTBench | 61.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.19 | — |
Math Not comparable
Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 30% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 56.1% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 33.5 (#97)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1107 |
| Video-MME | — | 73.5% |
| GeoBench | — | 62% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 33.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Small better than Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?
Magistral Small and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.2 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Magistral Small or Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?
Magistral Small is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct lists at $2.80 and $8.40.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct does, with 131K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Small and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Magistral Small has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has 6.