# Magistral Medium vs Mistral Large

> Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

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

## Summary

- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Magistral Medium scores higher in 5 categories and Mistral Large in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Magistral Medium leads 35.1 to 18.2.
- Magistral Medium is cheaper at $2 / $5 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Mistral Large.
- Magistral Medium accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.

## Snapshot

| | Magistral Medium | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 35.2 | 31.9 |
| Rank | 227 | 263 |
| Context | 262K | 131K |
| Input $/M | $2 | $2 |
| Output $/M | $5 | $6 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)
- Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 39.2% | 36.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1319 | 1277 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 30% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 47.1% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.3% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 264.7 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 62.2% |
| MBPP+ | — | 59.5% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Magistral Medium: —
- Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 38.4% |

## Reasoning

- Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)
- Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0.3% | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1267 | 1257 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.5% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 16.2% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 6.1% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 43.5% |
| DTBench | — | 65.1% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 50.1% |
| LMCA | — | 16.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 128.52 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.1 |
| LiveBench | — | 48.4% |

## Math

- Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)
- Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1250 | 1262 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 8.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 28.1% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 42.5% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 50.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |

## Knowledge

- Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)
- Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1232 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 51.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 59.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 21.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 43.5% |
| MMLU | — | 80% |

## Multilingual

- Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)
- Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1232 | 1237 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1227 | 1240 |
| LMArena French | 1267 | 1325 |
| LMArena German | 1248 | 1254 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | 1188 |
| LMArena Korean | 1125 | 1202 |
| LMArena Russian | 1224 | 1257 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1271 | 1268 |

## Instruction Following

- Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211)
- Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1254 | 1249 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 67.9% |
| IFEval | — | 87.7% |

## Long Context

- Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)
- Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1295 | 1261 |

## Writing & Preference

- Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)
- Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | 1266 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1245 | 1243 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1260 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 69% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 985 |
| WildBench | — | 80.1% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 39.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Magistral Medium better than Mistral Large?

Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Magistral Medium or Mistral Large?

Magistral Medium is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens; Mistral Large lists at $2 and $6.

### Is Magistral Medium or Mistral Large better for coding?

Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 34.3 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Magistral Medium does, with 262K tokens against 131K.

### How many benchmarks do Magistral Medium and Mistral Large share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large has 51.