Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Magistral Small 2506 leads with 7.5% higher average benchmark score. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is available on 4 providers. Overall, Magistral Small 2506 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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.
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.
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Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

Magistral Small 2506
Mistral AI
2025-06-10
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Magistral Small 2506

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Magistral Small 2506
2025-06-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Magistral Small 2506

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepInfra

Magistral Small 2506

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Magistral Small 2506

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
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