Model comparison
Codellama 70b Instruct vs Magistral Medium
Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 1 category and Magistral Medium in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Magistral Medium leads 39.6 to 24.8.
Side by side
| Codellama 70b Instruct | Magistral Medium | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 35.2 |
| Released | — | 2025-03-17 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $5 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Medium leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 39.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 40.7% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1319 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 49.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 65.9% | — |
Reasoning Codellama 70b Instruct leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1052 | 1267 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 16.2% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 6.1% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
Math Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1250 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1223 |
Multilingual Magistral Medium leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 992 | 1232 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1227 |
| LMArena French | — | 1267 |
| LMArena German | — | 1248 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1175 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1125 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1224 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1271 |
Instruction Following Magistral Medium leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1024 | 1254 |
Long Context Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1295 |
Writing & Preference Magistral Medium leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1057 | 1255 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1245 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1275 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Magistral Medium?
Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Magistral Medium better for coding?
Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 37.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Magistral Medium share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Medium has 22.