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Magistral Medium vs o1-mini

Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Magistral Medium Mistral AI

35.2

Rank #227 Confirmed

o1-mini OpenAI

34.0

Rank #235 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Magistral Medium scores higher in 1 category and o1-mini in 7 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where o1-mini leads 43.6 to 39.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 6.1% for Magistral Medium and 14% for o1-mini.
  • Magistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Magistral Mediumo1-mini
ProviderMistral AIOpenAI
Noometry Index35.234.0
Released2025-03-172024-09-12
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window262K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$5—
Results tracked2239

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Category by category

Coding Magistral Medium leads

Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161), o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)

BenchmarkMagistral Mediumo1-mini
LMArena Coding13191362
Aider Polyglot—32.9%
SciCode39.2%—
WeirdML—36.3%
LiveBench Coding—48%
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—78.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Magistral Medium: —, o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)

BenchmarkMagistral Mediumo1-mini
Cybench—10%

Reasoning Too close to call

Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348), o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)

BenchmarkMagistral Mediumo1-mini
ARC-AGI-20%0.8%
ARC-AGI-16.1%14%
LMArena Hard Prompts12671333
SimpleBench—18.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark16.2%—
CritPt0.3%—
LiveBench Reasoning—72.3%
LiveBench Data Analysis—57.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index—135.82
LiveBench—57.8%

Math Too close to call

Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189), o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)

BenchmarkMagistral Mediumo1-mini
LMArena Math12501358
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—46.9%
LiveBench Math—62%
MATH Level 5—89.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1.7%

Knowledge o1-mini leads

Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202), o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)

BenchmarkMagistral Mediumo1-mini
LMArena Expert12231316
GPQA Diamond—62.4%
Confabulations—18.6%

Multilingual o1-mini leads

Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224), o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)

BenchmarkMagistral Mediumo1-mini
LMArena Non-English12321289
LMArena Chinese12271314
LMArena French12671293
LMArena German12481278
LMArena Japanese11751245
LMArena Korean11251223
LMArena Russian12241283
LMArena Spanish12711303

Instruction Following Too close to call

Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211), o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)

BenchmarkMagistral Mediumo1-mini
LMArena Instruction Following12541304
LiveBench Instruction Following—65.4%

Long Context Too close to call

Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183), o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)

BenchmarkMagistral Mediumo1-mini
LMArena Longer Query12951320

Writing & Preference o1-mini leads

Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219), o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)

BenchmarkMagistral Mediumo1-mini
LMArena Text12551317
LMArena Creative Writing12451244
LMArena Multi-Turn12751314
Short-Story Creative Writing—64.9%
LiveBench Language—40.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Magistral Medium better than o1-mini?

Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Magistral Medium or o1-mini better for coding?

Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Magistral Medium and o1-mini share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.

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