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Magistral Chat on Arena Elo: score, rank and what it means

Magistral Chat scores 1397.1 on Arena Elo, placing it #217 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 1349.9 and the leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Max at 1501.9.

Score
1397.1
0–100 scale
Rank
#217
of 600
Percentile
64th
within the index
Benchmark avg
1349.9
all models
Leader
1501.9
Claude Opus 4.5 Max
Gap to leader
104.8
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on Arena Elo, with Magistral Chat highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

Claude Opus 4.5 Max 1501.9
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 1500.4
GPT-5.2 Turbo 1500.3
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 1497.5
GPT-5.2 Max 1495.3
Gemini 3 Pro Turbo 1494.9
Grok 4 Max 1491.4
Claude Opus 4.5 1491.2
GPT-5.1 Pro 1490.0
Grok 4 Reasoning 1487.6

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
2 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
3 GPT-5.2 Turbo OpenAI 1000000 $20.73 87.4
4 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2
5 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
6 Gemini 3 Pro Turbo Google DeepMind 400000 $19.62 86.4
7 Grok 4 Max xAI 2000000 $19.70 86.6
8 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
9 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
10 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8

What this score means

On Arena Elo, Magistral Chat sits at #217 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Max, scores 1501.9, so the gap to the top is 104.8 points. The median model in this index scores 1373.8, which puts Magistral Chat above the midpoint.

Mistral AI models average 1329.1 on this benchmark. Magistral Chat is 68.0 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Mistral AI model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 1409.6. Magistral Chat is 12.5 points below that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 1397.1 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 $4.33 per million input tokens, Magistral Chat is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on Arena Elo. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Llama 3 Anyscale Anyscale 65536 $3.94 74.7
Llama 3 Baseten Instruct Baseten 200000 $3.91 76.2
Llama 3 Novita Novita AI 128000 $3.70 74.4
Kimi K1.5 Base Moonshot AI 65536 $4.34 77.4
Magistral Chat Mistral AI 128000 $4.33 76.8
Reka Flash Pro Reka AI 200000 $10.82 75.2
Llama 3 Baseten Chat Baseten 200000 $3.55 73.2

Other benchmarks for Magistral Chat

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
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

FAQ

What score does Magistral Chat get on Arena Elo?

Magistral Chat scores 1397.1 on Arena Elo in this index. The benchmark average is 1349.9 and the top score is 1501.9.

How does Magistral Chat rank on Arena Elo?

It ranks #217 of 600 models, in the 64th percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Max at 1501.9.

Is Magistral Chat good at Arena Elo?

Yes, relative to the index: it is above the median and inside the top half of scores. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.

How is the Arena Elo score calculated?

Arena Elo is a preference 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 Chat cost?

Magistral Chat costs $4.33 per million input tokens and $16.06 per million output tokens.

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