Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Magistral Small 2506 leads with 27.2% higher average benchmark score. 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 7B was created as an efficient instruction-tuned model, designed to provide capable performance with just 7 billion parameters. Built for applications requiring reliable language understanding with minimal computational overhead, it serves as an accessible entry point to the Qwen 2.5 family.
8 months newer

Qwen2.5 7B 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 7B Instruct
Magistral Small 2506
2025-06-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Magistral Small 2506

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Together

Magistral Small 2506

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Magistral Small 2506

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct