Magistral Chat: pricing, context window and benchmarks
Magistral Chat is a multimodal model from Mistral AI. It offers a 128,000-token context window, costs $4.33 per million input tokens and $16.06 per million output tokens, and averages 76.8 across the index's benchmark suite.
Pricing
Magistral Chat costs $4.33 per million input tokens and $16.06 per million output tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix works out to about $7.26 per million tokens. Cached input is listed at $0.39 per million tokens.
| Item | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $4.33 | per 1M tokens |
| Output | $16.06 | per 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $0.39 | per 1M tokens |
| Blended 3:1 | $7.26 | estimate per 1M tokens |
| 1M in + 1M out | $20.39 | estimate |
Benchmarks
Scores below are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale. Use them to compare relative position, not as official vendor results.
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 77.9 | 246 | 59th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 72.3 | 214 | 64th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 64.5 | 222 | 63th | |
| HumanEval | 81.3 | 207 | 66th | |
| MATH-500 | 83.8 | 128 | 79th | |
| AIME 2025 | 73.7 | 192 | 68th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 67.5 | 238 | 60th | |
| IFEval | 83.5 | 231 | 62th | |
| TruthfulQA | 82.3 | 124 | 79th | |
| HellaSwag | 86.1 | 213 | 65th | |
| MMMU | 72.0 | 246 | 59th | |
| Arena Elo | 1397.1 | 217 | 64th |
What Magistral Chat is good for
Magistral Chat is tuned toward coding work. It is a reasonable candidate for code generation, review, debugging and repository-scale tasks, especially when paired with a retrieval layer. At $4.33 per million input tokens, it sits in the mid-range of the index, and the 128,000-token context window is enough for large files and multi-file diffs.
Strengths
- Large 128,000-token context window for long documents and agent traces.
- Open weights make self-hosting, fine-tuning and data-residency review possible.
- Accepts more than text, including image input where the provider supports it.
- Coding benchmarks are a relative strength within its tier.
Trade-offs
- No standout weakness in the indexed specifications, but real-world behaviour still needs testing.
How it compares
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 3.1 Turbo | Together AI | 200000 | $4.17 | 76.8 |
| Llama 3.3 Groq | Groq | 32768 | $3.98 | 76.8 |
| Llama 3.3 Groq Chat | Groq | 32768 | $4.06 | 76.8 |
| Magistral Chat | Mistral AI | 128000 | $4.33 | 76.8 |
| ERNIE 4.0 | Baidu | 32768 | $11.37 | 76.7 |
| Llama 3.1 Turbo Instruct | Together AI | 32768 | $4.21 | 76.7 |
FAQ
How much does Magistral Chat cost?
Magistral Chat is listed at $4.33 per million input tokens and $16.06 per million output tokens. Cached input is $0.39 per million tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix is about $7.26 per million tokens.
What is the context window of Magistral Chat?
Magistral Chat has a context window of 128,000 tokens and can emit up to 16,384 output tokens per request in this index.
Is Magistral Chat open weights?
Yes. Magistral Chat is listed as an open-weight model under a open weights licence.
How does Magistral Chat score on benchmarks?
Magistral Chat averages 76.8 across the scored benchmarks in this index, ranking #199 of 600 models. Its strongest relative result is Arena Elo at 1397.1.
What is Magistral Chat best for?
Magistral Chat is tuned toward coding work. It is a reasonable candidate for code generation, review, debugging and repository-scale tasks, especially when paired with a retrieval layer. At $4.33 per million input tokens, it sits in the mid-range of the index, and the 128,000-token context window is enough for large files and multi-file diffs.