Model comparison
Magistral Small vs Palm 2
Magistral Small and Palm 2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.2 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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Mistral AI
GoogleSummary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Palm 2 leads 19.1 to 6.8.
- Magistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Magistral Small | Palm 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | 30.0 |
| Released | 2025-06-10 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 40K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.50 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.50 | — |
| Results tracked | 10 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Small leads
Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176), Palm 2: 29.0 (#311)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 35.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 994 |
Reasoning Palm 2 leads
Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350), Palm 2: 19.1 (#271)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 6.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 3% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1005 |
| DTBench | 61.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.19 | — |
Math Palm 2 leads
Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261), Palm 2: 30.8 (#231)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 30% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1049 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223), Palm 2: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 56.1% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Palm 2: 20.9 (#295)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 916 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 887 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Palm 2: 51.0 (#296)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1010 |
Long Context Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Palm 2: 30.8 (#285)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1010 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Palm 2: 25.6 (#304)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1027 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 991 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 994 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Small better than Palm 2?
Magistral Small and Palm 2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.2 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Magistral Small or Palm 2 better for coding?
Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 versus 29.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Small and Palm 2 share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Small has 10 scored results on Noometry and Palm 2 has 10.