# DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Magistral Medium

> DeepSeek V4 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.2 to 34.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-v4-pro-vs-magistral-medium
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 22

## Summary

- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek V4 Pro scores higher in 8 categories and Magistral Medium in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where DeepSeek V4 Pro leads 56.4 to 8.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 90.5% for DeepSeek V4 Pro and 6.1% for Magistral Medium.
- DeepSeek V4 Pro is cheaper at $0.43 / $0.87 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $5 for Magistral Medium.
- DeepSeek V4 Pro accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 128K.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek V4 Pro | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 54.2 | 34.8 |
| Rank | 28 | 224 |
| Context | 1M | 128K |
| Input $/M | $0.43 | $2 |
| Output $/M | $0.87 | $5 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek V4 Pro: 52.2 (#31)
- Magistral Medium: 38.6 (#161)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 51% | 39.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1470 | 1319 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.6% | — |
| FrontierCode | 28.6% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1582 | — |
| WeirdML | 66.2% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 1,403 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DeepSeek V4 Pro: 32.7 (#54)
- Magistral Medium: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 47.3% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 3,285 | — |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek V4 Pro: 56.4 (#22)
- Magistral Medium: 8.7 (#342)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 61.3% | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 53.5% | 16.2% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 90.5% | 6.1% |
| CritPt | 18% | 0.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1461 | 1267 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 91.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 47% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 43% | — |
| DTBench | 93.9% | — |
| LMCA | 45.5% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 40% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 155.39 | — |
| ForecastBench | 56.1 | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek V4 Pro: 64.6 (#24)
- Magistral Medium: 32.4 (#187)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1455 | 1249 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 64.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 26.8% | — |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 76.6% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 98.6% | — |
| ProofBench | 50% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek V4 Pro: 59.5 (#28)
- Magistral Medium: 32.9 (#199)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1463 | 1222 |
| GPQA Diamond | 91.7% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 52.9% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 8.6% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek V4 Pro: 54.5 (#44)
- Magistral Medium: 39.8 (#219)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1438 | 1232 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1486 | 1225 |
| LMArena French | 1473 | 1268 |
| LMArena German | 1458 | 1248 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1448 | 1176 |
| LMArena Korean | 1452 | 1125 |
| LMArena Russian | 1452 | 1224 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1457 | 1269 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek V4 Pro: 76.3 (#44)
- Magistral Medium: 66.2 (#207)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1448 | 1254 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek V4 Pro: 45.0 (#49)
- Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#178)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1459 | 1295 |
| CL-bench Life | 13.5% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek V4 Pro: 65.6 (#45)
- Magistral Medium: 46.5 (#214)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1451 | 1255 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1446 | 1245 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1467 | 1275 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1553 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1166 | — |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek V4 Pro better than Magistral Medium?

DeepSeek V4 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.2 to 34.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4 Pro or Magistral Medium?

DeepSeek V4 Pro is cheaper. It lists at $0.43 per million input tokens and $0.87 per million output tokens; Magistral Medium lists at $2 and $5.

### Is DeepSeek V4 Pro or Magistral Medium better for coding?

DeepSeek V4 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.2 versus 38.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

DeepSeek V4 Pro does, with 1M tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek V4 Pro and Magistral Medium share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek V4 Pro has 48 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Medium has 22.