Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Magistral Small 2506 leads with 8.3% higher average benchmark score. QwQ-32B-Preview 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
QwQ 32B Preview was introduced as an early access version of the QwQ reasoning model, designed to allow researchers and developers to experiment with advanced analytical capabilities. Built to gather feedback on reasoning-enhanced architecture, it represents an experimental step toward more thoughtful language models.
6 months newer

QwQ-32B-Preview
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-11-28

Magistral Small 2506
Mistral AI
2025-06-10
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

Magistral Small 2506

QwQ-32B-Preview
QwQ-32B-Preview
2024-11-28
Magistral Small 2506
2025-06-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Magistral Small 2506

QwQ-32B-Preview
DeepInfra

Magistral Small 2506

QwQ-32B-Preview

Magistral Small 2506

QwQ-32B-Preview
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