# Magistral Medium vs Mistral Medium 3

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

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/magistral-medium-vs-mistral-medium-3
- 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 Mistral Medium 3 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.
- Mistral Medium 3 has the larger published context window at 128K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Magistral Medium | Mistral Medium 3 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Mistral | Mistral |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 40K | 128K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 28.84 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 6 | 1 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | $0.40 / $2.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Magistral Medium public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mistral Medium 3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Medium 3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v5 | 59.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 50.3% | 30.3% | Magistral Medium |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Magistral Medium public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mistral Medium 3 public-lane score: 47.4 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Magistral Medium public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mistral Medium 3 public-lane score: 42.6 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Magistral Medium public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mistral Medium 3 public-lane score: 30.8 (Estimated · #148/181)

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Medium 3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 70.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Magistral Medium public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mistral Medium 3 public-lane score: 45.5 (#94/128)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Magistral Medium public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mistral Medium 3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Mistral Medium 3 | 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 Mistral Medium 3?

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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- [Mistral Medium 3 vs Magistral Small](/compare/magistral-small-vs-mistral-medium-3)
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- [Mistral Medium 3 vs Claude Opus 5.5](/compare/claude-opus-5-5-vs-mistral-medium-3)

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