# Magistral Medium vs Qwen3.5 Plus

> Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 34.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/magistral-medium-vs-qwen3-5-plus
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.5 Plus leads 32.0 to 8.7.
- Qwen3.5 Plus is cheaper at $0.40 / $2.40 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $5 for Magistral Medium.
- Qwen3.5 Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 128K.
- Magistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 34.8 | 42.3 |
| Rank | 224 | 103 |
| Context | 128K | 1M |
| Input $/M | $2 | $0.40 |
| Output $/M | $5 | $2.40 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Magistral Medium: 38.6 (#161)
- Qwen3.5 Plus: —

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 39.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1319 | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 621.92 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Magistral Medium: —
- Qwen3.5 Plus: —

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 0.54 |

## Reasoning

- Magistral Medium: 8.7 (#342)
- Qwen3.5 Plus: 32.0 (#67)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 16.2% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 6.1% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 22% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1267 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 17% |
| DTBench | — | 80.5% |
| LMCA | — | 36.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 146.79 |

## Math

- Magistral Medium: 32.4 (#187)
- Qwen3.5 Plus: 47.9 (#55)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 86.7% |
| LMArena Math | 1249 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 21% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 2.1% |

## Knowledge

- Magistral Medium: 32.9 (#199)
- Qwen3.5 Plus: 46.0 (#78)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 84.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 25.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 10.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1222 | — |

## Multilingual

- Magistral Medium: 39.8 (#219)
- Qwen3.5 Plus: —

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| 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)
- Qwen3.5 Plus: —

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1254 | — |

## Long Context

- Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#178)
- Qwen3.5 Plus: 42.9 (#109)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| CL-bench | — | 19.8% |
| CL-bench Life | — | 12.4% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1295 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Magistral Medium: 46.5 (#214)
- Qwen3.5 Plus: —

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1245 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Magistral Medium better than Qwen3.5 Plus?

Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 34.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Magistral Medium or Qwen3.5 Plus?

Qwen3.5 Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $2.40 per million output tokens; Magistral Medium lists at $2 and $5.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.5 Plus does, with 1M tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Magistral Medium and Qwen3.5 Plus share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Plus has 15.