vs
2:10
overall capability wins (2 ties across 14 scored). Mistral Medium 3.5 leads overall.
- Reasoning1:5
- Coding0:3
- Arena0:1
- Tool use0:1
- Composite indices0:2
- Pricing1:1
- Speed0:2
- Specs1:0
Verdict
Mistral Medium 3.5 leads coding (widest gap: +38.6 on TermBench); Mistral Medium 3.5 ranks higher on LMArena (+13 Elo).
- Mistral Medium 3.5 leads coding (widest gap: +38.6 on TermBench)
- Mistral Medium 3.5 ranks higher on LMArena (+13 Elo)
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Mistral Large 3
- $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
Apache 2.0
Modified MIT
Open weights
Yes
Yes
Release
Nov 19, 2025
Apr 22, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Mistral
Mistral
Modalities
text, image → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
256K
256K
Max output
64K
64K
Parameters
675B (41B act.)
128B
Pricing
Input $/1M
$2
$1.50
Output $/1M
$6
$7.50
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$3
$3
Speed
tok/s
70
80
TTFT (s)
0.45
0.4
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
80.7
—
GPQA Diamond
68.0
74.8
Humanity's Last Exam
4.2
13.8
AIME 2025
38.0
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
25.0
24.7
AA-LCR v1.1
36.0
69.3
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
55.7
64.9
IFBench
36.2
68.8
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
46.5
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
12.0
50.6
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
36.6
40.2
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
1,230
1,265
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,413
1,426
| Metric | Mistral Large 3 | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Family | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Modified MIT | — |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | — |
| Release | Nov 19, 2025 | Apr 22, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Modalities | text, image → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 256K | 256K | tie |
| Max output | 64K | 64K | tie |
| Parameters | 675B (41B act.) | 128B | A +547 |
| 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 | 70 | 80 | B +10 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.45 | 0.4 | B +0.05 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | 80.7 | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 68.0 | 74.8 | B +6.8 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.2 | 13.8 | B +9.6 pts |
| AIME 2025 | 38.0 | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 25.0 | 24.7 | A +0.3 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 36.0 | 69.3 | B +33.3 pts |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | 55.7 | 64.9 | B +9.2 pts |
| IFBench | 36.2 | 68.8 | B +32.6 pts |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 46.5 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 12.0 | 50.6 | B +38.6 pts |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 36.6 | 40.2 | B +3.6 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | 1,230 | 1,265 | B +35 Elo |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,413 | 1,426 | B +13 Elo |
Mistral Large 3
- Context
- 256K / 64K out
- Parameters
- 675B (41B act.)
- Price
- $2 / $6
- Speed
- 70 tok/s · 0.45s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Mistral's open Large 3 MoE - multilingual European frontier alternative under Apache 2.0.
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.
Benchmark charts
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