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Magistral on MATH-500: score, rank and what it means

Magistral scores 85.4 on MATH-500, placing it #101 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 72.5 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.7.

Score
85.4
0–100 scale
Rank
#101
of 600
Percentile
83th
within the index
Benchmark avg
72.5
all models
Leader
96.7
GPT-5.2 Max
Gap to leader
11.3
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on MATH-500, with Magistral highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

GPT-5.2 Max 96.7
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 95.9
GPT-5.1 Pro 95.1
o4 Reasoning 94.8
Grok 4 Max 94.6
Grok 4 Reasoning 94.4
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 94.2
Claude Opus 4.5 93.7
Gemini 3 Pro Reasoning 93.3
Claude Opus 4.5 Turbo 93.2

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
2 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3
3 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
4 o4 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $19.69 87.5
5 Grok 4 Max xAI 2000000 $19.70 86.6
6 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8
7 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
8 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
9 Gemini 3 Pro Reasoning Google DeepMind 200000 $19.69 87.5
10 Claude Opus 4.5 Turbo Anthropic 2000000 $19.57 85.7

What this score means

On MATH-500, Magistral sits at #101 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Max, scores 96.7, so the gap to the top is 11.3 points. The median model in this index scores 76.0, which puts Magistral above the midpoint.

Mistral AI models average 69.1 on this benchmark. Magistral is 16.3 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Mistral AI model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 81.3. Magistral is 4.1 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 85.4 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 $4.75 per million input tokens, Magistral is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on MATH-500. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Command A Max Cohere 400000 $14.28 79.9
Reka Core Max Reka AI 128000 $13.41 79.3
Grok 3 Turbo xAI 128000 $15.97 83.1
Doubao 1.5 Pro Pro ByteDance 128000 $14.10 80.2
Magistral Mistral AI 200000 $4.75 79.8
Doubao 1.5 Pro Max ByteDance 400000 $14.93 81.2
Kimi K1.5 Moonshot AI 128000 $5.19 80.7

Other benchmarks for Magistral

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 82.1 120 80th
GPQA Diamond 75.8 126 79th
SWE-bench Verified 66.5 179 70th
HumanEval 85.1 111 82th
AIME 2025 74.2 174 71th
LiveCodeBench 75.3 92 85th
IFEval 86.1 152 75th
TruthfulQA 82.0 129 79th
HellaSwag 87.9 146 76th
MMMU 77.4 109 82th
Arena Elo 1427.8 125 79th

FAQ

What score does Magistral get on MATH-500?

Magistral scores 85.4 on MATH-500 in this index. The benchmark average is 72.5 and the top score is 96.7.

How does Magistral rank on MATH-500?

It ranks #101 of 600 models, in the 83rd percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.7.

Is Magistral good at MATH-500?

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 MATH-500 score calculated?

MATH-500 is a mathematics 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 cost?

Magistral costs $4.75 per million input tokens and $21.16 per million output tokens.

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