# Magistral Medium vs Magistral Small

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Magistral Medium and Magistral Small across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/magistral-medium-vs-magistral-small
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 6
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Magistral Medium if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Magistral Small only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Magistral Medium leads overall 64 to 63.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is LiveCodeBench v5 in Coding, with scores of 59.4% and 55.8%.
- Magistral Small also has the larger context window at 128K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Magistral Medium | Magistral Small |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Mistral | Mistral |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 40K | 128K |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 6 | 6 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Magistral Medium public-lane score: Coming soon
- Magistral Small public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Magistral Small | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v5 | 59.4% | 55.8% | Magistral Medium |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 50.3% | 47.4% | Magistral Medium |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Magistral Medium public-lane score: Coming soon
- Magistral Small public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Magistral Small | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 70.8% | 68.2% | Magistral Medium |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Magistral Medium public-lane score: Coming soon
- Magistral Small public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Magistral Small | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2024 | 73.6% | 70.7% | Magistral Medium |
| AIME 2025 | 64.9% | 62.8% | Magistral Medium |
| MATH-500 | 94.3% | 95.9% | Magistral Small |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Magistral Medium or Magistral Small?

Magistral Medium is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does Magistral Medium cover on BenchLM?

Magistral Medium currently has 6 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Magistral Small cover on BenchLM?

Magistral Small currently has 6 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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- [Magistral Medium profile](/models/magistral-medium)
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