Model comparison
Magistral Medium vs Qwen3 Coder Next
Magistral Medium and Qwen3 Coder Next score almost the same on the Noometry Index (35.2 vs 34.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Magistral Medium scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 Coder Next in 1 category; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3 Coder Next leads 22.4 to 8.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 39.2% for Magistral Medium and 32.3% for Qwen3 Coder Next.
- Qwen3 Coder Next is cheaper at $0.12 / $0.80 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $5 for Magistral Medium.
Side by side
| Magistral Medium | Qwen3 Coder Next | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 35.2 | 34.3 |
| Released | 2025-03-17 | 2026-02-02 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | 262K |
| Max output | 16K | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2 | $0.12 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $5 | $0.80 |
| Results tracked | 22 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Medium leads
Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161), Qwen3 Coder Next: 36.3 (#210)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 39.2% | 32.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 34.4% |
| LMArena Coding | 1319 | — |
Reasoning Qwen3 Coder Next leads
Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348), Qwen3 Coder Next: 22.4 (#196)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0.3% | 0% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 16.2% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 6.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1267 | — |
Math Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1250 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1254 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1295 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1245 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Medium better than Qwen3 Coder Next?
Magistral Medium and Qwen3 Coder Next score almost the same on the Noometry Index (35.2 vs 34.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Magistral Medium or Qwen3 Coder Next?
Qwen3 Coder Next is cheaper. It lists at $0.12 per million input tokens and $0.80 per million output tokens; Magistral Medium lists at $2 and $5.
Is Magistral Medium or Qwen3 Coder Next better for coding?
Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 36.3 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 262K tokens.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Medium and Qwen3 Coder Next share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Coder Next has 3.