Model comparison
Magistral Medium vs Pixtral Large
Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Magistral Medium leads 46.3 to 32.9.
- Magistral Medium is cheaper at $2 / $5 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Pixtral Large.
- Magistral Medium accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Magistral Medium | Pixtral Large | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 35.2 | 32.2 |
| Released | 2025-03-17 | 2024-11-01 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | 128K |
| Max output | 16K | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2 | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $5 | $6 |
| Results tracked | 22 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 39.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1319 | — |
Reasoning Pixtral Large leads
Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348), Pixtral Large: 21.7 (#218)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 16.2% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 6.1% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1267 | — |
Math Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1250 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Magistral Medium: —, Pixtral Large: 30.6 (#111)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1089 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1232 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1227 | — |
| LMArena French | 1267 | — |
| LMArena German | 1248 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1125 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1224 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1271 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1254 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1295 | — |
Writing & Preference Magistral Medium leads
Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219), Pixtral Large: 32.9 (#278)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1245 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 988 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Medium better than Pixtral Large?
Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Magistral Medium or Pixtral Large?
Magistral Medium is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens; Pixtral Large lists at $2 and $6.
Which has the bigger context window?
Magistral Medium does, with 262K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Medium and Pixtral Large share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral Large has 3.