Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Magistral Small 2506 leads with 17.7% higher average benchmark score. Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is available on 9 providers. Overall, Magistral Small 2506 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Meta
Llama 3.3 70B was introduced with refinements to the Llama 3 architecture, designed to incorporate improvements in instruction-following and task performance. Built to continue the evolution of Meta's 70B tier, it provides enhanced quality while maintaining the deployment characteristics valued by the open-source community.
Mistral AI
Magistral Small was created as an efficient reasoning-focused variant, designed to bring analytical capabilities to applications with tighter resource constraints. Built to balance problem-solving depth with practical deployment needs, it extends reasoning-enhanced AI to broader use cases.
6 months newer

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Meta
2024-12-06

Magistral Small 2506
Mistral AI
2025-06-10
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Magistral Small 2506
Magistral Small 2506
2025-06-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Bedrock
Cerebras
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Groq

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Magistral Small 2506

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Magistral Small 2506
Hyperbolic
Lambda
Sambanova
Together

Magistral Small 2506