# Magistral Medium vs Mistral Medium

> Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.0 to 34.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/magistral-medium-vs-mistral-medium
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 20

## Summary

- They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Magistral Medium scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral Medium in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Mistral Medium leads 23.3 to 8.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 16.2% for Magistral Medium and 50% for Mistral Medium.
- Magistral Medium is cheaper at $2 / $5 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium.
- Mistral Medium accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.

## Snapshot

| | Magistral Medium | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 34.8 | 36.0 |
| Rank | 224 | 211 |
| Context | 128K | 262K |
| Input $/M | $2 | $1.50 |
| Output $/M | $5 | $7.50 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Magistral Medium: 38.6 (#161)
- Mistral Medium: 33.8 (#241)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 39.2% | 40.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1319 | 1434 |
| FrontierCode | — | 8% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.7% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 763.98 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Magistral Medium: —
- Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#84)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.7% |

## Reasoning

- Magistral Medium: 8.7 (#342)
- Mistral Medium: 23.3 (#165)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 16.2% | 50% |
| CritPt | 0.3% | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1267 | 1426 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 6.1% | — |
| DTBench | — | 75.5% |
| LMCA | — | 26.1% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 26.9% |

## Math

- Magistral Medium: 32.4 (#187)
- Mistral Medium: 27.2 (#238)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1249 | 1409 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 32.2% |
| ProofBench | — | 9% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 81.6% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |

## Knowledge

- Magistral Medium: 32.9 (#199)
- Mistral Medium: 24.9 (#260)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1222 | 1408 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 59.5% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 4.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 22.7% |

## Multimodal

- Magistral Medium: —
- Mistral Medium: 34.6 (#82)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1172 |

## Multilingual

- Magistral Medium: 39.8 (#219)
- Mistral Medium: 52.3 (#86)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1232 | 1408 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1448 |
| LMArena French | 1268 | 1460 |
| LMArena German | 1248 | 1433 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1176 | 1378 |
| LMArena Korean | 1125 | 1382 |
| LMArena Russian | 1224 | 1411 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1269 | 1433 |

## Instruction Following

- Magistral Medium: 66.2 (#207)
- Mistral Medium: 73.9 (#111)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1254 | 1398 |

## Long Context

- Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#178)
- Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#108)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1295 | 1406 |

## Writing & Preference

- Magistral Medium: 46.5 (#214)
- Mistral Medium: 60.2 (#97)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | 1424 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1245 | 1391 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1418 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 77.3% |

## FAQ

### Is Magistral Medium better than Mistral Medium?

Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.0 to 34.8 on the Noometry Index.

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

Magistral Medium is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

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

Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.6 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Medium does, with 262K tokens against 128K.

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

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.