Model comparison
Command A vs Magistral Medium
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index. Magistral Medium costs 1.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command A's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
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Mistral AISummary
- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 7 categories and Magistral Medium in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Magistral Medium leads 39.1 to 27.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 28.8% for Command A and 16.2% for Magistral Medium.
- Magistral Medium is cheaper at $2 / $5 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command A.
- Magistral Medium accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 256K.
Side by side
| Command A | Magistral Medium | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 36.5 | 35.2 |
| Released | 2025-03-13 | 2025-03-17 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 256K | 262K |
| Max output | 8K | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | $5 |
| Results tracked | 24 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Medium leads
Command A: 27.2 (#322), Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)
| Benchmark | Command A | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1330 | 1319 |
| Aider Polyglot | 12% | — |
| SciCode | — | 39.2% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Command A: 35.9 (#40), Magistral Medium: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 57.1% | — |
Reasoning Command A leads
Command A: 18.3 (#283), Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)
| Benchmark | Command A | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | 16.2% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1326 | 1267 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 6.1% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| DTBench | 61.3% | — |
| LMCA | 10.3% | — |
Math Command A leads
Command A: 36.2 (#171), Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)
| Benchmark | Command A | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1300 | 1250 |
Knowledge Command A leads
Command A: 37.1 (#159), Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)
| Benchmark | Command A | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1295 | 1223 |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | — |
Multilingual Command A leads
Command A: 45.3 (#170), Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)
| Benchmark | Command A | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1313 | 1232 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1327 | 1227 |
| LMArena French | 1351 | 1267 |
| LMArena German | 1341 | 1248 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1285 | 1175 |
| LMArena Korean | 1285 | 1125 |
| LMArena Russian | 1314 | 1224 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1347 | 1271 |
Instruction Following Command A leads
Command A: 69.1 (#177), Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211)
| Benchmark | Command A | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1309 | 1254 |
Long Context Command A leads
Command A: 40.6 (#151), Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)
| Benchmark | Command A | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1334 | 1295 |
Writing & Preference Command A leads
Command A: 47.6 (#208), Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)
| Benchmark | Command A | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1331 | 1255 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | 1245 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 1275 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1145 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Command A better than Magistral Medium?
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index. Magistral Medium costs 1.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command A's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Command A or Magistral Medium?
Magistral Medium is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens; Command A lists at $2.50 and $10.
Is Command A or Magistral Medium better for coding?
Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Magistral Medium does, with 262K tokens against 256K.
How many benchmarks do Command A and Magistral Medium share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Medium has 22.