Magistral 8B on HumanEval: score, rank and what it means
Magistral 8B scores 63.2 on HumanEval, placing it #456 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 74.0 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 96.8.
Score distribution
The chart shows the top 10 models on HumanEval, with Magistral 8B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.
Top 10 leaderboard
| # | Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-5.2 Pro | OpenAI | 2000000 | $21.32 | 89.6 |
| 2 | Gemini 3 Pro Pro | Google DeepMind | 200000 | $19.80 | 87.3 |
| 3 | o4 Max | OpenAI | 2000000 | $19.51 | 86.2 |
| 4 | Grok 4 Reasoning | xAI | 2000000 | $19.67 | 87.8 |
| 5 | Claude Opus 4.5 | Anthropic | 400000 | $19.42 | 87.7 |
| 6 | GPT-5.2 Max | OpenAI | 1000000 | $21.39 | 89.2 |
| 7 | Claude Opus 4.5 Pro | Anthropic | 200000 | $20.98 | 89.1 |
| 8 | Grok 4 Max | xAI | 2000000 | $19.70 | 86.6 |
| 9 | GPT-5.2 Turbo | OpenAI | 1000000 | $20.73 | 87.4 |
| 10 | GPT-5.1 Reasoning | OpenAI | 400000 | $20.27 | 88.3 |
What this score means
On HumanEval, Magistral 8B sits at #456 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Pro, scores 96.8, so the gap to the top is 33.6 points. The median model in this index scores 77.4, which puts Magistral 8B below the midpoint.
Mistral AI models average 71.6 on this benchmark. Magistral 8B is 8.4 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Mistral AI model.
Among small open-weight models, the average is 56.7. Magistral 8B is 6.5 points above that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.
Read a 63.2 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.
Price context
At $1.33 per million input tokens, Magistral 8B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on HumanEval. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-NeoX Instruct | EleutherAI | 16384 | $1.52 | 62.6 |
| Sonar Nano | Perplexity | 4096 | $4.37 | 61.9 |
| SmolLM3 Chat | Hugging Face | 16384 | $1.61 | 62.1 |
| DeepSeek-Coder 8B | DeepSeek | 32768 | $1.26 | 58.7 |
| Magistral 8B | Mistral AI | 4096 | $1.33 | 60.0 |
| SmolLM3 Base | Hugging Face | 16384 | $1.38 | 60.4 |
| GPT-NeoX Chat | EleutherAI | 16384 | $1.49 | 60.1 |
Other benchmarks for Magistral 8B
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 64.8 | 457 | 24th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 53.1 | 490 | 18th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 47.8 | 438 | 27th | |
| MATH-500 | 59.6 | 472 | 21th | |
| AIME 2025 | 48.4 | 468 | 22th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 52.4 | 422 | 30th | |
| IFEval | 70.5 | 450 | 25th | |
| TruthfulQA | 66.2 | 441 | 27th | |
| HellaSwag | 74.8 | 445 | 26th | |
| MMMU | 58.7 | 447 | 26th | |
| Arena Elo | 1282.0 | 440 | 27th |
FAQ
What score does Magistral 8B get on HumanEval?
Magistral 8B scores 63.2 on HumanEval in this index. The benchmark average is 74.0 and the top score is 96.8.
How does Magistral 8B rank on HumanEval?
It ranks #456 of 600 models, in the 24th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 96.8.
Is Magistral 8B good at HumanEval?
It is below the median for this benchmark, so test it carefully before relying on it for this capability. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.
How is the HumanEval score calculated?
HumanEval is a coding benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.
What does Magistral 8B cost?
Magistral 8B costs $1.33 per million input tokens and $6.03 per million output tokens.