# Magistral Small vs QwQ-32B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Magistral Small and QwQ-32B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/magistral-small-vs-qwq-32b
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 5
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Magistral Small if you want the stronger benchmark profile. QwQ-32B only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Magistral Small leads overall 63 to 62.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is AIME 2024 in Mathematics, with scores of 70.7% and 79.5%.
- QwQ-32B also has the larger context window at 131K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Magistral Small | QwQ-32B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Mistral | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 128K | 131K |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 6 | 11 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Magistral Small public-lane score: Coming soon
- QwQ-32B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Magistral Small | QwQ-32B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BFCL v3 | Coming soon | 66.4% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Magistral Small public-lane score: Coming soon
- QwQ-32B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Magistral Small | QwQ-32B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v5 | 55.8% | 62.7% | QwQ-32B |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 47.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Magistral Small public-lane score: Coming soon
- QwQ-32B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Magistral Small | QwQ-32B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 68.2% | 65.6% | Magistral Small |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 90% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 88.4% | Coming soon |
| MMMLU | Coming soon | 80.9% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Magistral Small public-lane score: Coming soon
- QwQ-32B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Magistral Small | QwQ-32B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| INCLUDE | Coming soon | 69.7% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Magistral Small public-lane score: Coming soon
- QwQ-32B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Magistral Small | QwQ-32B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 83.9% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Magistral Small public-lane score: Coming soon
- QwQ-32B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Magistral Small | QwQ-32B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2024 | 70.7% | 79.5% | QwQ-32B |
| AIME 2025 | 62.8% | 69.5% | QwQ-32B |
| MATH-500 | 95.9% | 98% | QwQ-32B |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Magistral Small or QwQ-32B?

Magistral Small is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

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

Magistral Small currently has 6 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does QwQ-32B cover on BenchLM?

QwQ-32B currently has 11 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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- [Magistral Small vs Magistral Medium](/compare/magistral-medium-vs-magistral-small)
- [QwQ-32B vs Magistral Medium](/compare/magistral-medium-vs-qwq-32b)
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- [QwQ-32B vs Claude Opus 5.5](/compare/claude-opus-5-5-vs-qwq-32b)

## Explore More

- [Magistral Small profile](/models/magistral-small)
- [QwQ-32B profile](/models/qwq-32b)
- [Compare Pricing](/llm-pricing)
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- [Overall Rankings](/best/overall)