Model comparison
Magistral Medium vs Qwen3 14B
Magistral Medium and Qwen3 14B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (35.2 vs 35.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Magistral Medium scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen3 14B in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3 14B leads 18.5 to 8.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 16.2% for Magistral Medium and 49.1% for Qwen3 14B.
- Qwen3 14B is cheaper at $0.35 / $1.40 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $5 for Magistral Medium.
- Magistral Medium accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.
Side by side
| Magistral Medium | Qwen3 14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 35.2 | 35.5 |
| Released | 2025-03-17 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | 131K |
| Max output | 16K | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2 | $0.35 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $5 | $1.40 |
| Results tracked | 22 | 12 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Medium leads
Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161), Qwen3 14B: 37.3 (#195)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 39.2% | 31.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1319 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Magistral Medium: —, Qwen3 14B: 29.6 (#83)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 41% |
Reasoning Qwen3 14B leads
Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348), Qwen3 14B: 18.5 (#280)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 16.2% | 49.1% |
| CritPt | 0.3% | 0% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 6.1% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1267 | — |
| DTBench | — | 64% |
| LMCA | — | 18.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 138.23 |
Math Qwen3 14B leads
Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189), Qwen3 14B: 38.6 (#133)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 66.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1250 | — |
Knowledge Qwen3 14B leads
Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202), Qwen3 14B: 39.3 (#134)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 63.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224), Qwen3 14B: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| 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), Qwen3 14B: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1254 | — |
Long Context Magistral Medium leads
Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183), Qwen3 14B: 38.1 (#204)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.5% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1295 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219), Qwen3 14B: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1245 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Medium better than Qwen3 14B?
Magistral Medium and Qwen3 14B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (35.2 vs 35.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Magistral Medium or Qwen3 14B?
Qwen3 14B is cheaper. It lists at $0.35 per million input tokens and $1.40 per million output tokens; Magistral Medium lists at $2 and $5.
Is Magistral Medium or Qwen3 14B better for coding?
Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 37.3 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Magistral Medium does, with 262K tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Medium and Qwen3 14B share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.