Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Magistral Medium leads with 8.3% higher average benchmark score. Magistral Medium supports multimodal inputs. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is available on 4 providers. Overall, Magistral Medium is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Mistral AI
Magistral Medium was introduced as a specialized model for advanced reasoning and analytical tasks, designed to handle complex problem-solving scenarios. Built to serve enterprise and professional applications requiring sophisticated reasoning, it represents Mistral's focus on high-quality analytical capabilities.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen 2.5 72B was developed as the flagship text model in the Qwen 2.5 series, designed to provide advanced language capabilities with 72 billion parameters. Built to compete with frontier models in reasoning, coding, and general language tasks, it represents Qwen's most capable instruction-following model in this generation.
8 months newer

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

Magistral Medium
Mistral AI
2025-06-10
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Magistral Medium

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Magistral Medium
2025-06-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Magistral Medium

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepInfra

Magistral Medium

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Magistral Medium

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
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