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Magistral Medium vs Ministral 8B Instruct

Magistral Medium leads the LLM Stats Score 13.1 to -4.7.

Mistral AI · Mistral AI · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Magistral Medium leads the overall LLM Stats Score 13.1 to -4.7, ranking #247 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Magistral Medium

  • overall performance matters — it scores 13.1 and ranks #247 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Jun 2025

Choose Ministral 8B Instruct

  • you want predictable pricing at $0.10/M input and $0.10/M output

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Magistral Medium
Mistral AI
Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
13.1
#247
-4.7
#352
Reasoning
13.3
#238
-4.8
#343
Coding
3.5
#216
-14.5
#267
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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Input price
— / M
$0.10 / M
Output price
— / M
$0.10 / M
Context window
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128,000

Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

1 shared
Index
Magistral Medium
Ministral 8B Instruct
Math
11.4#242
-4.1#316
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

6 reported for Magistral Medium · 11 for Ministral 8B Instruct

No common benchmarks found

Magistral Medium and Ministral 8B Instructdon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Model Size

Parameter count comparison

16.0B diff

Magistral Medium has 16.0B more parameters than Ministral 8B Instruct, making it 199.3% larger.

Mistral AI
Magistral Medium
24.0Bparameters
Mistral AI
Ministral 8B Instruct
8.0Bparameters
24.0B
Magistral Medium
8.0B
Ministral 8B Instruct

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Ministral 8B Instruct specifies input context (128,000 tokens). Only Ministral 8B Instruct specifies output context (128,000 tokens).

Mistral AI
Magistral Medium
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Mistral AI
Ministral 8B Instruct
Input128,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
Sun Sep 20 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Magistral Medium supports multimodal inputs, whereas Ministral 8B Instruct does not.

Magistral Medium can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Magistral Medium

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Ministral 8B Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Magistral Medium is licensed under Apache 2.0, while Ministral 8B Instruct uses Mistral Research License.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Magistral Medium

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Ministral 8B Instruct

Mistral Research License

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Magistral Medium was released on 2025-06-10, while Ministral 8B Instruct was released on 2024-10-16.

Magistral Medium is 8 months newer than Ministral 8B Instruct.

Magistral Medium

Jun 10, 2025

1.3 years ago

7mo newer
Ministral 8B Instruct

Oct 16, 2024

1.9 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Magistral Medium has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2025-06-01, while Ministral 8B Instruct's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Magistral Medium's training data extends to 2025-06-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without Ministral 8B Instruct's cutoff date.

Magistral Medium

Jun 2025

Ministral 8B Instruct

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Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Magistral Medium and Ministral 8B Instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

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FAQ

Common questions about Magistral Medium vs Ministral 8B Instruct.

Which is better, Magistral Medium or Ministral 8B Instruct?

Magistral Medium leads the LLM Stats Score 13.1 to -4.7. Magistral Medium is made by Mistral AI and Ministral 8B Instruct is made by Mistral AI. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Magistral Medium compare to Ministral 8B Instruct in benchmarks?

Magistral Medium scores AIME 2024: 73.6%, GPQA: 70.8%, AIME 2025: 64.9%, LiveCodeBench: 50.3%, Aider-Polyglot: 47.1%. Ministral 8B Instruct scores MT-Bench: 83.0%, Winogrande: 75.3%, ARC-C: 71.9%, Arena Hard: 70.9%, MBPP pass@1: 70.0%.

What are the context window sizes for Magistral Medium and Ministral 8B Instruct?

Magistral Medium supports an unknown number of tokens and Ministral 8B Instruct supports 128K tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Magistral Medium and Ministral 8B Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (13.1 vs -4.7), multimodal support (yes vs no), licensing (Apache 2.0 vs Mistral Research License). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

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