Model comparison
GLM-4.5V vs Mistral Medium 3.5
GLM-4.5V and Mistral Medium 3.5 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.8 vs 40.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.5V scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Medium 3.5 in 7 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where GLM-4.5V leads 27.4 to 17.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 59.8% for GLM-4.5V and 41.4% for Mistral Medium 3.5.
- GLM-4.5V is cheaper at $0.60 / $1.80 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium 3.5.
- Mistral Medium 3.5 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 64K.
Side by side
| GLM-4.5V | Mistral Medium 3.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 39.8 | 40.2 |
| Released | 2025-08-11 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 64K | 262K |
| Max output | 16K | 210K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.60 | $1.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.80 | $7.50 |
| Results tracked | 15 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding GLM-4.5V leads
GLM-4.5V: 39.5 (#155), Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.0 (#213)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5V | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1347 | 1461 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1264 |
Reasoning GLM-4.5V leads
GLM-4.5V: 27.4 (#119), Mistral Medium 3.5: 17.3 (#295)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5V | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 59.8% | 41.4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1334 | 1436 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 12.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 141.35 |
Math Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
GLM-4.5V: 37.4 (#159), Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.1 (#113)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5V | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1354 | 1431 |
Knowledge Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
GLM-4.5V: 37.5 (#156), Mistral Medium 3.5: 40.0 (#126)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5V | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1353 | 1432 |
Multimodal Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
GLM-4.5V: 34.3 (#92), Mistral Medium 3.5: 38.3 (#65)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5V | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1154 | 1223 |
Multilingual Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
GLM-4.5V: 44.6 (#177), Mistral Medium 3.5: 51.9 (#100)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5V | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1303 | 1404 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1337 | 1442 |
| LMArena Russian | 1298 | 1395 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1336 | 1409 |
| LMArena French | — | 1448 |
| LMArena German | — | 1451 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1385 |
Instruction Following Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
GLM-4.5V: 69.2 (#175), Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.6 (#90)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5V | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1311 | 1415 |
Long Context Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
GLM-4.5V: 39.6 (#171), Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#103)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5V | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1304 | 1415 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Medium 3.5 leads
GLM-4.5V: 52.5 (#170), Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.5 (#117)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5V | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1333 | 1421 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1295 | 1374 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1332 | 1423 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 993 |
Frequently asked questions
Is GLM-4.5V better than Mistral Medium 3.5?
GLM-4.5V and Mistral Medium 3.5 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.8 vs 40.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, GLM-4.5V or Mistral Medium 3.5?
GLM-4.5V is cheaper. It lists at $0.60 per million input tokens and $1.80 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.5 lists at $1.50 and $7.50.
Is GLM-4.5V or Mistral Medium 3.5 better for coding?
GLM-4.5V scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.5 versus 36.0 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Mistral Medium 3.5 does, with 262K tokens against 64K.
How many benchmarks do GLM-4.5V and Mistral Medium 3.5 share?
15 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.5V has 15 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22.