Model comparison
Magistral Small vs Qwen3.5 Max Preview
Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads 30.8 to 6.8.
- Magistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Magistral Small | Qwen3.5 Max Preview | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | 45.3 |
| Released | 2025-06-10 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 40K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.50 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.50 | — |
| Results tracked | 10 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 44.0 (#77)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 35.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1487 |
Reasoning Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 30.8 (#84)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 6.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 3% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1483 |
| DTBench | 61.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.19 | — |
Math Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 40.1 (#94)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 30% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1474 |
Knowledge Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 41.8 (#107)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 56.1% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1489 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 56.2 (#22)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1465 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1534 |
| LMArena French | — | 1484 |
| LMArena German | — | 1487 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1495 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1438 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1471 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1470 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 77.0 (#31)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1467 |
Long Context Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 45.2 (#45)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1476 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 66.0 (#41)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1470 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1464 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1478 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Small better than Qwen3.5 Max Preview?
Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Magistral Small or Qwen3.5 Max Preview better for coding?
Qwen3.5 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 38.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Small and Qwen3.5 Max Preview share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Small has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Max Preview has 17.