vs
0:3
overall capability wins (0 ties across 3 scored). Mistral Medium 3.5 leads overall.
- Pricing3:0
- Speed2:0
- Specs0:3
Verdict
Mistral Medium 3.5 offers ~7.8x larger context (256K vs 33K); Mistral Medium 3.5 allows ~7.8x more max output (64K vs 8K); Codestral 22B is ~10.0x cheaper on a blended token basis than Mistral Medium 3.5.
- Mistral Medium 3.5 offers ~7.8x larger context (256K vs 33K)
- Mistral Medium 3.5 allows ~7.8x more max output (64K vs 8K)
- Codestral 22B is ~10.0x cheaper on a blended token basis than Mistral Medium 3.5
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Codestral 22B
- $0.35
- Mistral Medium 3.5
- $3.38
Codestral 22B is about 9.6x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Mistral
Mistral
Family
Mistral
Mistral
License
MNPL
Modified MIT
Open weights
Yes
Yes
Release
May 29, 2024
Apr 22, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Mistral / Together (ref.)
Mistral
Modalities
text → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
33K
256K
Max output
8K
64K
Parameters
22B
128B
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.20
$1.50
Output $/1M
$0.60
$7.50
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.30
$3
Speed
tok/s
90
80
TTFT (s)
0.3
0.4
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
—
74.8
Humanity's Last Exam
—
13.8
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
—
24.7
AA-LCR v1.1
—
69.3
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
—
64.9
IFBench
—
68.8
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
50.6
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
41.8
—
SciCode
—
40.2
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
1,265
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
1,426
| Metric | Codestral 22B | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Family | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| License | MNPL | Modified MIT | — |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | — |
| Release | May 29, 2024 | Apr 22, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Mistral / Together (ref.) | Mistral | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 33K | 256K | B +223K |
| Max output | 8K | 64K | B +56K |
| Parameters | 22B | 128B | B +106 |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.20 | $1.50 | A +$1.30 |
| Output $/1M | $0.60 | $7.50 | A +$6.90 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.30 | $3 | A +$2.70 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 90 | 80 | A +10 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.3 | 0.4 | A +0.10 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 74.8 | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 13.8 | — |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | — | 24.7 | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | 69.3 | — |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | 64.9 | — |
| IFBench | — | 68.8 | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | 50.6 | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | 41.8 | — | — |
| SciCode | — | 40.2 | — |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | 1,265 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | 1,426 | — |
Codestral 22B
- Context
- 33K / 8K out
- Parameters
- 22B
- Price
- $0.20 / $0.60
- Speed
- 90 tok/s · 0.3s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- MNPL
Original open-weight Codestral 22B — fill-in-the-middle coding model under Mistral's MNPL.
Mistral Medium 3.5
- Context
- 256K / 64K out
- Parameters
- 128B
- Price
- $1.50 / $7.50
- Speed
- 80 tok/s · 0.4s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Modified MIT
Mistral's April 2026 frontier multimodal model (open weights, Modified MIT) powering Vibe remote agents at $1.50/$7.50.
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