# Magistral Medium vs MiMo-V2.5

> MiMo-V2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.4 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/magistral-medium-vs-mimo-v2-5
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 19

## Summary

- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Magistral Medium scores higher in 0 categories and MiMo-V2.5 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where MiMo-V2.5 leads 28.6 to 8.6.
- MiMo-V2.5 is cheaper at $0.14 / $0.28 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $5 for Magistral Medium.
- MiMo-V2.5 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 262K.

## Snapshot

| | Magistral Medium | MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Xiaomi |
| Noometry Index | 35.2 | 43.4 |
| Rank | 227 | 93 |
| Context | 262K | 1.05M |
| Input $/M | $2 | $0.14 |
| Output $/M | $5 | $0.28 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)
- MiMo-V2.5: 43.9 (#81)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 39.2% | 43.1% |
| LMArena Coding | 1319 | 1469 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1438 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 513.95 |

## Reasoning

- Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)
- MiMo-V2.5: 28.6 (#101)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0.3% | 3.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1267 | 1450 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 16.2% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 6.1% | — |

## Math

- Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)
- MiMo-V2.5: 36.8 (#163)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1250 | 1436 |
| ProofBench | — | 16% |

## Knowledge

- Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)
- MiMo-V2.5: 40.8 (#115)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1460 |

## Multimodal

- Magistral Medium: —
- MiMo-V2.5: 39.8 (#54)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1247 |

## Multilingual

- Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)
- MiMo-V2.5: 51.9 (#99)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1232 | 1404 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1227 | 1468 |
| LMArena French | 1267 | 1447 |
| LMArena German | 1248 | 1421 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | 1306 |
| LMArena Korean | 1125 | 1363 |
| LMArena Russian | 1224 | 1395 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1271 | 1416 |

## Instruction Following

- Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211)
- MiMo-V2.5: 75.5 (#60)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1254 | 1434 |

## Long Context

- Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)
- MiMo-V2.5: 44.2 (#73)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1295 | 1445 |

## Writing & Preference

- Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)
- MiMo-V2.5: 61.6 (#86)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | 1428 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1245 | 1393 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1445 |

## FAQ

### Is Magistral Medium better than MiMo-V2.5?

MiMo-V2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.4 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Magistral Medium or MiMo-V2.5?

MiMo-V2.5 is cheaper. It lists at $0.14 per million input tokens and $0.28 per million output tokens; Magistral Medium lists at $2 and $5.

### Is Magistral Medium or MiMo-V2.5 better for coding?

MiMo-V2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.9 versus 39.1 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

MiMo-V2.5 does, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

### How many benchmarks do Magistral Medium and MiMo-V2.5 share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and MiMo-V2.5 has 23.