Model Comparison

Magistral Medium vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Both models are evenly matched across the benchmarks.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

2 benchmarks

Magistral Medium outperforms in 1 benchmarks (GPQA), while Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is better at 1 benchmark (LiveCodeBench).

Both models are evenly matched across the benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Cost data unavailable.

Lowest available price from all providers
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Mistral AI
Magistral Medium
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
Best providerUnknown Organization
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Input tokens$0.35
Output tokens$0.40
Best providerDeepinfra
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Model Size

Parameter count comparison

48.7B diff

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has 48.7B more parameters than Magistral Medium, making it 202.9% larger.

Mistral AI
Magistral Medium
24.0Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
72.7Bparameters
24.0B
Magistral Medium
72.7B
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Qwen2.5 72B Instruct specifies input context (131,072 tokens). Only Qwen2.5 72B Instruct specifies output context (8,192 tokens).

Mistral AI
Magistral Medium
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Input131,072 tokens
Output8,192 tokens
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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Magistral Medium supports multimodal inputs, whereas Qwen2.5 72B 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

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Magistral Medium is licensed under Apache 2.0, while Qwen2.5 72B Instruct uses Qwen.

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

Magistral Medium

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Qwen

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Magistral Medium was released on 2025-06-10, while Qwen2.5 72B Instruct was released on 2024-09-19.

Magistral Medium is 9 months newer than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct.

Magistral Medium

Jun 10, 2025

10 months ago

8mo newer
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Sep 19, 2024

1.6 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Magistral Medium has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2025-06-01, while Qwen2.5 72B 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 Qwen2.5 72B Instruct's cutoff date.

Magistral Medium

Jun 2025

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

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Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

Mistral AI
Supports multimodal inputs
Higher GPQA score (70.8% vs 49.0%)
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Larger context window (131,072 tokens)
Higher LiveCodeBench score (55.5% vs 50.3%)

Detailed Comparison

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Feature
Mistral AI
Magistral Medium
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

FAQ

Common questions about Magistral Medium vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Both models are evenly matched across the benchmarks. Magistral Medium is made by Mistral AI and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is made by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their benchmark scores, pricing, and capabilities above.
Magistral Medium scores AIME 2024: 73.6%, GPQA: 70.8%, AIME 2025: 64.9%, LiveCodeBench: 50.3%, Aider-Polyglot: 47.1%. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct scores GSM8k: 95.8%, MT-Bench: 93.5%, MBPP: 88.2%, MMLU-Redux: 86.8%, HumanEval: 86.6%.
Magistral Medium supports an unknown number of tokens and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct supports 131K tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.
Key differences include multimodal support (yes vs no), licensing (Apache 2.0 vs Qwen). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.
Magistral Medium is developed by Mistral AI and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.