Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Magistral Small 2506 leads with 22.2% higher average benchmark score. Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct supports multimodal inputs. 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
Qwen2.5-VL 32B was developed as a mid-sized vision-language model, designed to balance multimodal capability with practical deployment considerations. Built with 32 billion parameters for vision and language integration, it serves applications requiring strong visual understanding without flagship-scale resources.
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Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-02-28

Magistral Small 2506
Mistral AI
2025-06-10
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Magistral Small 2506

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

Magistral Small 2506

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct

Magistral Small 2506

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct