# Kanana-2 3B Instruct vs Magistral Medium

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Kanana-2 3B Instruct and Magistral Medium across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/kanana-2-3b-instruct-vs-magistral-medium
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Kanana-2 3B Instruct and Magistral Medium share only 1 sourced benchmark row.

## Summary

- Only 1 shared sourced benchmark row is available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Magistral Medium has the larger published context window at 40K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Kanana-2 3B Instruct | Magistral Medium |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Kakao | Mistral |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 32K | 40K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 3 | 6 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Kanana-2 3B Instruct public-lane score: Coming soon
- Magistral Medium public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kanana-2 3B Instruct | Magistral Medium | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v5 | Coming soon | 59.4% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 50.3% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Kanana-2 3B Instruct public-lane score: Coming soon
- Magistral Medium public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kanana-2 3B Instruct | Magistral Medium | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | Coming soon | 70.8% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Kanana-2 3B Instruct public-lane score: Coming soon
- Magistral Medium public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kanana-2 3B Instruct | Magistral Medium | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 33.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFEval | 81.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Kanana-2 3B Instruct public-lane score: Coming soon
- Magistral Medium public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kanana-2 3B Instruct | Magistral Medium | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MATH-500 | 61.2% | 94.3% | Magistral Medium |
| AIME 2024 | Coming soon | 73.6% | Coming soon |
| AIME 2025 | Coming soon | 64.9% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Kanana-2 3B Instruct and Magistral Medium?

Not yet. The models share only 1 sourced benchmark row, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

## Related Comparisons

- [Kanana-2 3B Instruct vs Kanana-2 1.3B Instruct](/compare/kanana-2-1-3b-instruct-vs-kanana-2-3b-instruct)
- [Magistral Medium vs Kanana-2 1.3B Instruct](/compare/kanana-2-1-3b-instruct-vs-magistral-medium)
- [Kanana-2 3B Instruct vs Magistral Small](/compare/kanana-2-3b-instruct-vs-magistral-small)
- [Magistral Medium vs Magistral Small](/compare/magistral-medium-vs-magistral-small)

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- [Kanana-2 3B Instruct profile](/models/kanana-2-3b-instruct)
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