Model comparison
Magistral Small vs Qwen3 32B
Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index. Magistral Small costs 1.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3 32B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Magistral Small scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 32B in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 32B leads 37.9 to 24.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 6.3% for Magistral Small and 54.9% for Qwen3 32B.
- Magistral Small is cheaper at $0.50 / $1.50 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $2.80 for Qwen3 32B.
- Qwen3 32B accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Magistral Small | Qwen3 32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 38.8 |
| Released | 2025-06-10 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 131K |
| Max output | 40K | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.50 | $0.70 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.50 | $2.80 |
| Results tracked | 10 | 26 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Magistral Small: 37.8 (#172), Qwen3 32B: 37.3 (#184)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 35.2% | 35.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 40% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1358 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen3 32B: 32.3 (#58)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 48.7% |
Reasoning Qwen3 32B leads
Magistral Small: 6.9 (#345), Qwen3 32B: 19.6 (#233)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 6.3% | 54.9% |
| CritPt | 0.3% | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | 3% | 5% |
| DTBench | 61.3% | 67.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.19 | 138.51 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1335 |
| LMCA | — | 17.3% |
Math Qwen3 32B leads
Magistral Small: 24.9 (#253), Qwen3 32B: 37.9 (#89)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 30% | 66.9% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1399 |
Knowledge Qwen3 32B leads
Magistral Small: 30.9 (#215), Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#112)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 56.1% | 65.7% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.9% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1362 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen3 32B: 45.8 (#162)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1317 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1357 |
| LMArena German | — | 1341 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1311 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen3 32B: 69.1 (#174)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1305 |
Long Context Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen3 32B: 43.7 (#83)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 74.2% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1327 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen3 32B: 53.1 (#158)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1340 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1297 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1331 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Small better than Qwen3 32B?
Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index. Magistral Small costs 1.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3 32B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Magistral Small or Qwen3 32B?
Magistral Small is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens; Qwen3 32B lists at $0.70 and $2.80.
Is Magistral Small or Qwen3 32B better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (37.8 vs 37.3); test both on your own repository before choosing.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen3 32B does, with 131K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Small and Qwen3 32B share?
8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Small has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.