# Magistral Small vs Mercury 2.5

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Magistral Small and Mercury 2.5 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/magistral-small-vs-mercury-2-5
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 0
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

No benchmark verdict yet: there is no shared sourced benchmark row for Magistral Small and Mercury 2.5.

## Summary

- Magistral Small and Mercury 2.5 do not currently share a sourced benchmark row. The mirror therefore compares metadata, pricing, context windows, and each model's separately reported coverage without naming a benchmark winner.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Magistral Small | Mercury 2.5 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Mistral | Inception |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 128K | 260K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 36.27 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 6 | 6 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | $0.04 / $0.15 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Magistral Small public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 12.6 (Supported · #115/124)

| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 96.0% | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 34.0% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 34.5% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Magistral Small public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 17 (Estimated · #124/148)

| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v5 | 55.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 47.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 38% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Magistral Small public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 72.6 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Magistral Small public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 34.6 (Supported · #133/181)

| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 68.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 79.0% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Magistral Small public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 81.1 (#55/128)

| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 77% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Magistral Small public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Mercury 2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2024 | 70.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME 2025 | 62.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MATH-500 | 95.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Can I compare Magistral Small and Mercury 2.5 on BenchLM yet?

Not fully yet. BenchLM is tracking both models, but sourced benchmark coverage is still incomplete for a fair score-level comparison.

### Why does this page show "coming soon" values?

BenchLM only calls winners when public benchmark coverage is available on both sides of the comparison.

## Related Comparisons

- [Magistral Small vs Magistral Medium](/compare/magistral-medium-vs-magistral-small)
- [Mercury 2.5 vs Magistral Medium](/compare/magistral-medium-vs-mercury-2-5)
- [Magistral Small vs Mercury 2.5 Preview](/compare/magistral-small-vs-mercury-2-5-preview)
- [Mercury 2.5 vs Mercury 2.5 Preview](/compare/mercury-2-5-vs-mercury-2-5-preview)

## Explore More

- [Magistral Small profile](/models/magistral-small)
- [Mercury 2.5 profile](/models/mercury-2-5)
- [Compare Pricing](/llm-pricing)
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- [Overall Rankings](/best/overall)