vs
0:9
overall capability wins (0 ties across 9 scored). Mistral Medium 3.5 leads overall.
- Reasoning0:5
- Coding0:1
- Pricing3:0
- Speed2:0
- Specs0:3
Verdict
Mistral Medium 3.5 leads coding (widest gap: +15.9 on SciCode); Mistral Medium 3.5 offers ~2.0x larger context (256K vs 128K); Mistral Medium 3.5 allows ~7.8x more max output (64K vs 8K).
- Mistral Medium 3.5 leads coding (widest gap: +15.9 on SciCode)
- Mistral Medium 3.5 offers ~2.0x larger context (256K vs 128K)
- Mistral Medium 3.5 allows ~7.8x more max output (64K vs 8K)
- Devstral Small is ~24.5x 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.
- Devstral Small
- $0.14
- Mistral Medium 3.5
- $3.38
Devstral Small is about 24.1x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Mistral
Mistral
Family
Mistral
Mistral
License
Apache 2.0
Modified MIT
Open weights
Yes
Yes
Release
May 21, 2025
Apr 22, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Mistral
Mistral
Modalities
text → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
128K
256K
Max output
8K
64K
Parameters
24B
128B
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.07
$1.50
Output $/1M
$0.28
$7.50
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.12
$3
Speed
tok/s
100
80
TTFT (s)
0.28
0.4
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
41.4
74.8
Humanity's Last Exam
3.8
13.8
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
14.7
24.7
AA-LCR v1.1
18.7
69.3
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
—
64.9
IFBench
34.6
68.8
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
46.8
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
50.6
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
24.3
40.2
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
14.6
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
1,265
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
1,426
| Metric | Devstral Small | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Family | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Modified MIT | — |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | — |
| Release | May 21, 2025 | Apr 22, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 128K | 256K | B +128K |
| Max output | 8K | 64K | B +56K |
| Parameters | 24B | 128B | B +104 |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.07 | $1.50 | A +$1.43 |
| Output $/1M | $0.28 | $7.50 | A +$7.22 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.12 | $3 | A +$2.88 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 100 | 80 | A +20 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.28 | 0.4 | A +0.12 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 41.4 | 74.8 | B +33.4 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.8 | 13.8 | B +10.0 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 14.7 | 24.7 | B +10.0 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 18.7 | 69.3 | B +50.6 pts |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | 64.9 | — |
| IFBench | 34.6 | 68.8 | B +34.2 pts |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | 46.8 | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | 50.6 | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 24.3 | 40.2 | B +15.9 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | 14.6 | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | 1,265 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | 1,426 | — |
Devstral Small
- Context
- 128K / 8K out
- Parameters
- 24B
- Price
- $0.07 / $0.28
- Speed
- 100 tok/s · 0.28s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Open coding agent model from Mistral — lighter sibling to Devstral 2 for IDE workflows.
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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