Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Magistral Small 2506 leads with 19.9% higher average benchmark score. Qwen2.5-Coder 32B 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 Coder 32B was developed as a specialized coding model, designed to excel at programming tasks with 32 billion parameters specifically optimized for code. Built to understand and generate code across multiple programming languages, it serves developers requiring advanced code completion, debugging, and explanation capabilities.
8 months newer

Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

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

Magistral Small 2506

Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct
Magistral Small 2506
2025-06-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Magistral Small 2506

Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct
DeepInfra

Magistral Small 2506

Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct

Magistral Small 2506

Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct
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