Model comparison

Magistral Small vs Yi-34B

Magistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.2 to 27.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Magistral Small Mistral AI

30.2

Rank #296 Confirmed

Yi-34B 01.AI

27.8

Rank #329 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Magistral Small scores higher in 3 categories and Yi-34B in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Magistral Small leads 30.9 to 7.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 56.1% for Magistral Small and 14.7% for Yi-34B.

Side by side

Magistral Small and Yi-34B specifications
Magistral SmallYi-34B
ProviderMistral AI01.AI
Noometry Index30.227.8
Released2025-06-102023-11-02
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K—
Max output40K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.50—
Output $ / M tokens$1.50—
Results tracked1023

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Category by category

Coding Magistral Small leads

Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176), Yi-34B: 32.3 (#274)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMagistral SmallYi-34B
SciCode35.2%—
LMArena Coding—1112

Reasoning Yi-34B leads

Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350), Yi-34B: 21.2 (#226)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMagistral SmallYi-34B
Epoch Capabilities Index133.19117.39
ARC-AGI-20%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark6.3%—
ARC-AGI-15%—
CritPt0.3%—
Chess Puzzles3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1104
DTBench61.3%—
BIG-Bench Hard—71.7%

Math Magistral Small leads

Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261), Yi-34B: 21.6 (#282)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMagistral SmallYi-34B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202530%—
LMArena Math—1114
MATH Level 5—5.1%
GSM8K—76%

Knowledge Magistral Small leads

Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223), Yi-34B: 7.5 (#309)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMagistral SmallYi-34B
GPQA Diamond56.1%14.7%
LMArena Expert—1061
MMLU—76.3%

Multilingual Not comparable

Magistral Small: —, Yi-34B: 29.7 (#264)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMagistral SmallYi-34B
LMArena Non-English—1079
LMArena Chinese—1176
LMArena French—1081
LMArena German—1042
LMArena Japanese—993
LMArena Korean—959
LMArena Russian—1050
LMArena Spanish—1070

Instruction Following Not comparable

Magistral Small: —, Yi-34B: 56.2 (#274)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMagistral SmallYi-34B
LMArena Instruction Following—1091

Long Context Not comparable

Magistral Small: —, Yi-34B: 33.2 (#264)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMagistral SmallYi-34B
LMArena Longer Query—1094

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Magistral Small: —, Yi-34B: 34.1 (#273)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMagistral SmallYi-34B
LMArena Text—1129
LMArena Creative Writing—1108
LMArena Multi-Turn—1113

Frequently asked questions

Is Magistral Small better than Yi-34B?

Magistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.2 to 27.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Magistral Small or Yi-34B better for coding?

Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 versus 32.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Magistral Small and Yi-34B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Small has 10 scored results on Noometry and Yi-34B has 23.

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