# Magistral Medium vs Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Magistral Medium and Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/magistral-medium-vs-mellum2-1-12b-a2-5b-thinking
- 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: Magistral Medium and Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking 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.
- Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking has the larger published context window at 128K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Magistral Medium | Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Mistral | JetBrains |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 40K | 128K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 6 | 7 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Magistral Medium public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 17.4% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Magistral Medium public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v5 | 59.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 50.3% | 82.0% | Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 47% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 28% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Magistral Medium public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 70.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 87.8% | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 64.6% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Magistral Medium public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 90.6% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Magistral Medium public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2024 | 73.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME 2025 | 64.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MATH-500 | 94.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Magistral Medium and Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking?

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.

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