Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Magistral Small 2506 leads with 33.8% 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
Qwen2 7B was created as an efficient variant in the Qwen2 family, designed to provide capable instruction-following with 7 billion parameters. Built to serve as a practical foundation for applications requiring reliable language understanding, it balances performance with deployment efficiency.
10 months newer

Qwen2 7B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-07-23

Magistral Small 2506
Mistral AI
2025-06-10
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Magistral Small 2506

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

Magistral Small 2506

Qwen2 7B Instruct

Magistral Small 2506

Qwen2 7B Instruct