Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Magistral Medium 1
Wins 4 of 6 areas
Coding · Reasoning · Long documents · Following instructions
Wins 1 of 6 areas
Agents
Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger all-rounder.Magistral Medium 1 is better at agents.
Scores updated · 21 tests both models report · How we compare
Where each one wins
Tests won in each of the six areas where both have results. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.
- ReasoningHard problems that need careful thinking40Gemini 2.5 Pro4 of 4 tests
- CodingWriting and fixing software20Gemini 2.5 Pro2 of 2 tests
- Long documentsFinding answers in very long texts10Gemini 2.5 Pro1 of 1 test
- Following instructionsDoing exactly what it is asked10Gemini 2.5 Pro1 of 1 test
- AgentsCarrying out multi-step tasks on its own01Magistral Medium 11 of 1 test
- FactsGetting facts right instead of making them up11Even1 each
Agents, long documents and following instructions rest on a single test each.
What it costs
Prices per million tokens, roughly 750,000 words. The bars show the cost of a million tokens read plus a million written.
The biggest differences
The tests each model wins by the widest margin, up to three each. Scores are out of 100.
Where Gemini 2.5 Pro pulls ahead
- Follows unfamiliar, precisely checkable instructionsIFBench+23.6points ahead
- Answers hard knowledge questions correctlyAA-Omniscience · Accuracy+18.8points ahead
- Hard command-line tasks in a real terminalTerminal-Bench Hard+17.4points ahead
Where Magistral Medium 1 pulls ahead
- Avoids making up answers it doesn't knowAA-Omniscience · Non-hallucination+31.6points ahead
Every test, side by side
All 21 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.
CodingGemini 2.5 Pro
- Terminal-Bench HardGemini 2.5 Pro by 17.426.59.1+17.4
- SciCodeGemini 2.5 Pro by 16.646.329.7+16.6
ReasoningGemini 2.5 Pro
- GPQA DiamondGemini 2.5 Pro by 15.783.667.9+15.7
- Humanity's Last ExamGemini 2.5 Pro by 8.2189.8+8.2
- ARC-AGI-2Gemini 2.5 Pro by 4.94.90+4.9
- CritPtGemini 2.5 Pro by 2.32.60.3+2.3
FactsEven
- AA-Omniscience · Non-hallucinationMagistral Medium 1 by 31.69.140.7+31.6
- AA-Omniscience · AccuracyGemini 2.5 Pro by 18.83920.3+18.8
Following instructionsGemini 2.5 Pro
- IFBenchGemini 2.5 Pro by 23.648.725.1+23.6
Other results10 tests, not counted
Tests outside the eight areas. They are not counted above: several are summary scores built from other tests, or the same test under another name.
- τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)Gemini 2.5 Pro by 3154.123.1+31
- ARC-AGI-1Gemini 2.5 Pro by 30.9376.1+30.9
- Artificial Analysis Coding IndexGemini 2.5 Pro by 30.746.716+30.7
- Aider-PolyglotGemini 2.5 Pro by 29.476.547.1+29.4
- LiveCodeBenchGemini 2.5 Pro by 23.974.250.3+23.9
- AIME 2024Gemini 2.5 Pro by 21.39270.7+21.3
- AIME 2025Gemini 2.5 Pro by 18.18364.9+18.1
- AA Agentic IndexMagistral Medium 1 by 12.23.515.7+12.2
- AA-OmniscienceGemini 2.5 Pro by 10.6-16.4-26.9+10.6
- AA IntelligenceGemini 2.5 Pro by 5.9159.1+5.9
Questions people ask
Which is better, Gemini 2.5 Pro or Magistral Medium 1?
Gemini 2.5 Pro wins four of the six areas where both have results: coding, reasoning, long documents and following instructions. Magistral Medium 1 wins agents. They are level on facts.
Which is better for coding?
Gemini 2.5 Pro. It wins 2 of the 2 coding tests both models report; Magistral Medium 1 wins none.
How do you compare the two?
We use the 21 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 11 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 10 are listed but not counted, because several are summary scores or repeat a test. Each score is the one shown on the model's own page.