Model comparison
GPT-4 vs Magistral Small
GPT-4 and Magistral Small score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.9 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4 scores higher in 1 category and Magistral Small in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Magistral Small leads 24.9 to 10.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 1.1% for GPT-4 and 30% for Magistral Small.
- Magistral Small is cheaper at $0.50 / $1.50 per million input/output tokens, against $30 / $60 for GPT-4.
- Magistral Small accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 8K.
- Magistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| GPT-4 | Magistral Small | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 28.9 | 29.9 |
| Released | 2023-03-14 | 2025-06-10 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 8K | 128K |
| Max output | 8K | 40K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $30 | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $60 | $1.50 |
| Results tracked | 38 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Small leads
GPT-4: 31.2 (#277), Magistral Small: 37.8 (#172)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 35.2% |
| WeirdML | 12.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1254 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.2% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 79.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GPT-4: —, Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4 | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| METR Time Horizons | 36.1% | — |
Reasoning GPT-4 leads
GPT-4: 17.3 (#285), Magistral Small: 6.9 (#345)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 4% | 3% |
| DTBench | 62.7% | 61.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 125.88 | 133.19 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 6.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 5% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1241 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 12% | — |
| LMCA | 17.1% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 75.1% | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.8 | — |
| HellaSwag | 95.3% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.5% | — |
Math Magistral Small leads
GPT-4: 10.1 (#304), Magistral Small: 24.9 (#253)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.1% | 30% |
| LMArena Math | 1269 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 23% | — |
| GSM8K | 92% | — |
Knowledge Magistral Small leads
GPT-4: 18.4 (#277), Magistral Small: 30.9 (#215)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 35.7% | 56.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1211 | — |
| MMLU | 86.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 84.8% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
GPT-4: 40.8 (#210), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4 | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1246 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1242 | — |
| LMArena French | 1282 | — |
| LMArena German | 1251 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1209 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1184 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1251 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1261 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
GPT-4: 65.5 (#217), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4 | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1241 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
GPT-4: 37.7 (#207), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4 | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1244 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
GPT-4: 35.0 (#263), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4 | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1263 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1244 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 752 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1257 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-4 better than Magistral Small?
GPT-4 and Magistral Small score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.9 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, GPT-4 or Magistral Small?
Magistral Small is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens; GPT-4 lists at $30 and $60.
Is GPT-4 or Magistral Small better for coding?
Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.8 versus 31.2 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Magistral Small does, with 128K tokens against 8K.
How many benchmarks do GPT-4 and Magistral Small share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4 has 38 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Small has 10.