# Magistral Medium vs Mercury

> Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/magistral-medium-vs-mercury
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 9

## Summary

- They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Magistral Medium scores higher in 4 categories and Mercury in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Mercury leads 17.5 to 8.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 16.2% for Magistral Medium and 21.6% for Mercury.
- Magistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Magistral Medium | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Inception |
| Noometry Index | 35.2 | 37.6 |
| Rank | 227 | 199 |
| Context | 262K | — |
| Input $/M | $2 | — |
| Output $/M | $5 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)
- Mercury: 38.7 (#170)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1319 | 1322 |
| SciCode | 39.2% | — |

## Reasoning

- Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)
- Mercury: 17.5 (#293)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 16.2% | 21.6% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1267 | 1285 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 6.1% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |

## Math

- Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)
- Mercury: —

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1250 | — |

## Knowledge

- Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)
- Mercury: —

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | — |

## Multilingual

- Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)
- Mercury: 41.6 (#206)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1232 | 1260 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1227 | — |
| LMArena French | 1267 | — |
| LMArena German | 1248 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1125 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1224 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1271 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211)
- Mercury: 65.2 (#224)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1254 | 1239 |

## Long Context

- Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)
- Mercury: 38.4 (#198)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1295 | 1266 |

## Writing & Preference

- Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)
- Mercury: 46.2 (#221)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1245 | 1191 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1282 |

## FAQ

### Is Magistral Medium better than Mercury?

Mercury is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Magistral Medium or Mercury better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (39.1 vs 38.7); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Magistral Medium and Mercury share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and Mercury has 9.