Model comparison
Magistral Small vs Qwen2-72B
Magistral Small and Qwen2-72B 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.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Magistral Small scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen2-72B in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen2-72B leads 23.2 to 6.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 56.1% for Magistral Small and 40.8% for Qwen2-72B.
Side by side
| Magistral Small | Qwen2-72B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | 30.0 |
| Released | 2025-06-10 | 2024-06-07 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 40K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.50 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.50 | — |
| Results tracked | 10 | 26 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Small leads
Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176), Qwen2-72B: 29.1 (#310)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 35.2% | — |
| WeirdML | — | 11.3% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 38.5% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1196 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen2-72B: 17.0 (#146)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 1.1% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 29.9% |
Reasoning Qwen2-72B leads
Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350), Qwen2-72B: 23.2 (#181)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.19 | 125.28 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 6.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 3% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1191 |
| DTBench | 61.3% | — |
Math Qwen2-72B leads
Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261), Qwen2-72B: 30.2 (#236)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 30% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1235 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 39.1% |
Knowledge Magistral Small leads
Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223), Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#275)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 56.1% | 40.8% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1171 |
| MMLU | — | 82.4% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen2-72B: 35.9 (#244)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1176 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1240 |
| LMArena French | — | 1170 |
| LMArena German | — | 1151 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1111 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1083 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1169 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1169 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen2-72B: 61.7 (#241)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1181 |
Long Context Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#235)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1192 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Qwen2-72B: 40.8 (#241)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1203 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1181 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1196 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Small better than Qwen2-72B?
Magistral Small and Qwen2-72B 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 Qwen2-72B better for coding?
Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Small and Qwen2-72B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Small has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.