# Magistral Medium vs o4-mini

> o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/magistral-medium-vs-o4-mini
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 21

## Summary

- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Magistral Medium scores higher in 0 categories and o4-mini in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where o4-mini leads 24.6 to 8.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 6.1% for Magistral Medium and 58.7% for o4-mini.
- o4-mini is cheaper at $1.10 / $4.40 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $5 for Magistral Medium.
- Magistral Medium accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 200K.
- Magistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Magistral Medium | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 35.2 | 41.6 |
| Rank | 227 | 132 |
| Context | 262K | 200K |
| Input $/M | $2 | $1.10 |
| Output $/M | $5 | $4.40 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)
- o4-mini: 40.9 (#127)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1319 | 1368 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 45% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 72% |
| SciCode | 39.2% | — |
| GSO | — | 3.6% |
| WeirdML | — | 52.6% |
| CadEval | — | 62% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 826.17 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.72 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Magistral Medium: —
- o4-mini: 32.6 (#61)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 53.2% |
| GDPval | — | 25.3% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 63.9% |

## Reasoning

- Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)
- o4-mini: 24.6 (#162)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | 6.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 16.2% | 67.6% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 6.1% | 58.7% |
| CritPt | 0.3% | 0.6% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1267 | 1351 |
| SimpleBench | — | 38.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 26% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 9.2% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 5% |
| DTBench | — | 77.6% |
| LMCA | — | 26.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 145.64 |
| ForecastBench | — | 61.8 |

## Math

- Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)
- o4-mini: 40.8 (#89)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1250 | 1389 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 36.1% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 4.9% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 81.7% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 72% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 97.8% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 24.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 6.3% |

## Knowledge

- Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)
- o4-mini: 43.6 (#91)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1343 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 79.6% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 18.1% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 19.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 82% |
| Confabulations | — | 15.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 18.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 73.5% |

## Multimodal

- Magistral Medium: —
- o4-mini: 40.2 (#49)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1194 |
| GeoBench | — | 64% |
| VPCT | — | 57.5% |

## Multilingual

- Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)
- o4-mini: 47.0 (#154)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1232 | 1337 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1227 | 1354 |
| LMArena French | 1267 | 1364 |
| LMArena German | 1248 | 1336 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | 1308 |
| LMArena Korean | 1125 | 1312 |
| LMArena Russian | 1224 | 1334 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1271 | 1347 |

## Instruction Following

- Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211)
- o4-mini: 75.2 (#68)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1254 | 1321 |
| IFEval | — | 92.8% |

## Long Context

- Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)
- o4-mini: 45.5 (#33)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1295 | 1315 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 77.8% |

## Writing & Preference

- Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)
- o4-mini: 54.0 (#152)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | 1353 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1245 | 1294 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1350 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 75% |
| WildBench | — | 85.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Magistral Medium better than o4-mini?

o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Magistral Medium or o4-mini?

o4-mini is cheaper. It lists at $1.10 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens; Magistral Medium lists at $2 and $5.

### Is Magistral Medium or o4-mini better for coding?

o4-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.9 versus 39.1 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Magistral Medium does, with 262K tokens against 200K.

### How many benchmarks do Magistral Medium and o4-mini share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and o4-mini has 60.