# Magistral Medium vs Qwen2.5 14B Instruct

> Magistral Medium has enough public results to be ranked (#224); Qwen2.5 14B Instruct does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/magistral-medium-vs-qwen2-5-14b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- Qwen2.5 14B Instruct is cheaper at $0.35 / $1.40 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $5 for Magistral Medium.
- Qwen2.5 14B Instruct accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.

## Snapshot

| | Magistral Medium | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 34.8 | 38.2 |
| Rank | 224 | — |
| Context | 128K | 131K |
| Input $/M | $2 | $0.35 |
| Output $/M | $5 | $1.40 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Magistral Medium: 38.6 (#161)
- Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: 37.1 (#187)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 39.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 39.8% |
| LMArena Coding | 1319 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 52.2% |

## Reasoning

- Magistral Medium: 8.7 (#342)
- Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 16.2% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 6.1% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1267 | — |

## Math

- Magistral Medium: 32.4 (#187)
- Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1249 | — |

## Knowledge

- Magistral Medium: 32.9 (#199)
- Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1222 | — |
| MMLU | — | 79.9% |

## Multilingual

- Magistral Medium: 39.8 (#219)
- Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1232 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | — |
| LMArena French | 1268 | — |
| LMArena German | 1248 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1176 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1125 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1224 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1269 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Magistral Medium: 66.2 (#207)
- Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1254 | — |

## Long Context

- Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#178)
- Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1295 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Magistral Medium: 46.5 (#214)
- Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1245 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Magistral Medium better than Qwen2.5 14B Instruct?

Magistral Medium has enough public results to be ranked (#224); Qwen2.5 14B Instruct does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Which is cheaper, Magistral Medium or Qwen2.5 14B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.35 per million input tokens and $1.40 per million output tokens; Magistral Medium lists at $2 and $5.

### Is Magistral Medium or Qwen2.5 14B Instruct better for coding?

Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.6 versus 37.1 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct does, with 131K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Magistral Medium and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct has 3.