vs
0:8
overall capability wins (0 ties across 8 scored). Mistral Medium 3.5 leads overall.
- Reasoning0:4
- Coding0:1
- Pricing1:1
- Speed0:2
- Specs0:3
Verdict
Mistral Medium 3.5 leads coding (widest gap: +11.0 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: +11.0 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 ships open weights (Modified MIT)
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Mistral Large 2
- $3.50
- Mistral Medium 3.5
- $3.38
Mistral Medium 3.5 is about 1.0x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Mistral
Mistral
Family
Mistral
Mistral
License
Mistral Research / Proprietary API
Modified MIT
Open weights
No
Yes
Release
Jul 24, 2024
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
123B
128B
Pricing
Input $/1M
$2
$1.50
Output $/1M
$6
$7.50
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$3
$3
Speed
tok/s
65
80
TTFT (s)
0.45
0.4
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
48.6
74.8
Humanity's Last Exam
3.3
13.8
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
19.9
24.7
AA-LCR v1.1
—
69.3
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
—
64.9
IFBench
31.2
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
—
—
SciCode
29.2
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 | Mistral Large 2 | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Family | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| License | Mistral Research / Proprietary API | Modified MIT | — |
| Open weights | No | Yes | — |
| Release | Jul 24, 2024 | 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 | 123B | 128B | B +5.00 |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $2 | $1.50 | B +$0.50 |
| Output $/1M | $6 | $7.50 | A +$1.50 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $3 | $3 | tie |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 65 | 80 | B +15 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.45 | 0.4 | B +0.05 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 48.6 | 74.8 | B +26.2 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.3 | 13.8 | B +10.5 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 19.9 | 24.7 | B +4.8 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | 69.3 | — |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | 64.9 | — |
| IFBench | 31.2 | 68.8 | B +37.6 pts |
| 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 | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 29.2 | 40.2 | B +11.0 pts |
| 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 | — |
Mistral Large 2
- Context
- 128K / 8K out
- Parameters
- 123B
- Price
- $2 / $6
- Speed
- 65 tok/s · 0.45s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Mistral Research / Proprietary API
123B flagship before Large 3 — EU-hosted frontier option with strong multilingual coding.
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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