# Magistral Medium vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct

> Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 34.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/magistral-medium-vs-qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Magistral Medium scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads 24.7 to 8.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 16.2% for Magistral Medium and 49.5% for Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct.
- Magistral Medium is cheaper at $2 / $5 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct.
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.

## Snapshot

| | Magistral Medium | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 34.8 | 37.7 |
| Rank | 224 | 186 |
| Context | 128K | 262K |
| Input $/M | $2 | $1.50 |
| Output $/M | $5 | $7.50 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Magistral Medium: 38.6 (#161)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 36.2 (#199)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1319 | 1413 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 55.4% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1275 |
| SciCode | 39.2% | — |
| GSO | — | 4.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 41.2% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 461.45 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.44 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Magistral Medium: —
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.7 (#116)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 27.2% |

## Reasoning

- Magistral Medium: 8.7 (#342)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 24.7 (#141)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 16.2% | 49.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1267 | 1372 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 6.1% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |

## Math

- Magistral Medium: 32.4 (#187)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 34.9 (#151)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1249 | 1364 |

## Knowledge

- Magistral Medium: 32.9 (#199)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 36.4 (#159)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1222 | 1337 |

## Multilingual

- Magistral Medium: 39.8 (#219)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.8 (#143)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1232 | 1345 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1225 | 1356 |
| LMArena French | 1268 | 1394 |
| LMArena German | 1248 | 1324 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1176 | 1309 |
| LMArena Korean | 1125 | 1307 |
| LMArena Russian | 1224 | 1367 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1269 | 1360 |

## Instruction Following

- Magistral Medium: 66.2 (#207)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.8 (#142)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1254 | 1356 |

## Long Context

- Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#178)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#126)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1295 | 1379 |

## Writing & Preference

- Magistral Medium: 46.5 (#214)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.5 (#142)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | 1356 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1245 | 1333 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1365 |

## FAQ

### Is Magistral Medium better than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 34.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Magistral Medium or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Magistral Medium is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens; Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

### Is Magistral Medium or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better for coding?

Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.6 versus 36.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct does, with 262K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Magistral Medium and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.