# Magistral Medium vs Pixtral Large

> Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/magistral-medium-vs-pixtral-large
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Magistral Medium leads 46.3 to 32.9.
- Magistral Medium is cheaper at $2 / $5 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Pixtral Large.
- Magistral Medium accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.

## Snapshot

| | Magistral Medium | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 35.2 | 32.2 |
| Rank | 227 | 259 |
| Context | 262K | 128K |
| Input $/M | $2 | $2 |
| Output $/M | $5 | $6 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)
- Pixtral Large: —

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 39.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1319 | — |

## Reasoning

- Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)
- Pixtral Large: 21.7 (#218)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 16.2% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 6.1% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1267 | — |

## Math

- Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)
- Pixtral Large: —

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1250 | — |

## Knowledge

- Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)
- Pixtral Large: —

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | — |

## Multimodal

- Magistral Medium: —
- Pixtral Large: 30.6 (#111)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1089 |

## Multilingual

- Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)
- Pixtral Large: —

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1232 | — |
| 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)
- Pixtral Large: —

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1254 | — |

## Long Context

- Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)
- Pixtral Large: —

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1295 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)
- Pixtral Large: 32.9 (#278)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1245 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 988 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Magistral Medium better than Pixtral Large?

Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

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

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

### Which has the bigger context window?

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

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

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral Large has 3.