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Magistral Medium vs Mistral Large 3

Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 34.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Magistral Medium Mistral AI

34.8

Rank #224 Confirmed

Mistral Large 3 Mistral AI

38.6

Rank #172 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Magistral Medium scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Large 3 in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Large 3 leads 60.2 to 46.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 16.2% for Magistral Medium and 50.9% for Mistral Large 3.
  • Mistral Large 3 is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.75 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $5 for Magistral Medium.
  • Mistral Large 3 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Magistral MediumMistral Large 3
ProviderMistral AIMistral AI
Noometry Index34.838.6
Released2025-03-172025-12-02
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K262K
Max output16K8K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$5$0.75
Results tracked2224

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Category by category

Coding Magistral Medium leads

Magistral Medium: 38.6 (#161), Mistral Large 3: 34.1 (#230)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumMistral Large 3
LMArena Coding13191447
LMArena WebDev—1230
SciCode39.2%—

Reasoning Mistral Large 3 leads

Magistral Medium: 8.7 (#342), Mistral Large 3: 14.6 (#314)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumMistral Large 3
Kagi LLM Benchmark16.2%50.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts12671429
ARC-AGI-20%—
NYT Connections (extended)—7.5%
ARC-AGI-16.1%—
CritPt0.3%—
Thematic Generalization—23%

Math Mistral Large 3 leads

Magistral Medium: 32.4 (#187), Mistral Large 3: 36.0 (#131)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumMistral Large 3
LMArena Math12491415

Knowledge Mistral Large 3 leads

Magistral Medium: 32.9 (#199), Mistral Large 3: 35.5 (#173)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumMistral Large 3
LMArena Expert12221421
Vectara Hallucination Rate—14.5%

Multimodal Not comparable

Magistral Medium: —, Mistral Large 3: 37.6 (#65)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumMistral Large 3
LMArena Vision—1222

Multilingual Mistral Large 3 leads

Magistral Medium: 39.8 (#219), Mistral Large 3: 52.6 (#79)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumMistral Large 3
LMArena Non-English12321412
LMArena Chinese12251448
LMArena French12681456
LMArena German12481438
LMArena Japanese11761399
LMArena Korean11251384
LMArena Russian12241412
LMArena Spanish12691437

Instruction Following Mistral Large 3 leads

Magistral Medium: 66.2 (#207), Mistral Large 3: 74.1 (#104)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumMistral Large 3
LMArena Instruction Following12541402

Long Context Mistral Large 3 leads

Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#178), Mistral Large 3: 43.1 (#102)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumMistral Large 3
LMArena Longer Query12951413

Writing & Preference Mistral Large 3 leads

Magistral Medium: 46.5 (#214), Mistral Large 3: 60.2 (#100)

BenchmarkMagistral MediumMistral Large 3
LMArena Text12551427
LMArena Creative Writing12451385
LMArena Multi-Turn12751429
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1412

Frequently asked questions

Is Magistral Medium better than Mistral Large 3?

Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 34.8 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Magistral Medium or Mistral Large 3?

Mistral Large 3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.75 per million output tokens; Magistral Medium lists at $2 and $5.

Is Magistral Medium or Mistral Large 3 better for coding?

Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.6 versus 34.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Large 3 does, with 262K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Magistral Medium and Mistral Large 3 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large 3 has 24.

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