Model comparison

Mistral Medium 3.1 vs Qwen3 Max

Qwen3 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.7 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Medium 3.1 costs 3.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3 Max's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified October 11, 2026. 1 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Medium 3.1

Mistral AI

31.9

Rank #266 Reported

Qwen3 Max

Alibaba (Qwen)

43.7

Rank #87 Confirmed

Summary

They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Mistral Medium 3.1 scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 Max in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3 Max leads 22.6 to 10.6.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 6.5% for Mistral Medium 3.1 and 30.1% for Qwen3 Max.
Mistral Medium 3.1 is cheaper at $0.40 / $2 per million input/output tokens, against $1.20 / $6 for Qwen3 Max.
Qwen3 Max accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

Mistral Medium 3.1 and Qwen3 Max specifications
	Mistral Medium 3.1	Qwen3 Max
Provider	Mistral AI	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	31.9	43.7
Released	—	2025-09-23
Weights	Proprietary	Proprietary
Context window	131K	262K
Max output	105K	66K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.40	$1.20
Output $ / M tokens	$2	$6
Results tracked	3	33

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.1: —, Qwen3 Max: 43.0 (#93)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.1	Qwen3 Max
LMArena Coding	—	1456
ALE-Bench	—	370.45

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.1: —, Qwen3 Max: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.1	Qwen3 Max
Vending-Bench 2	—	71.56

Reasoning Qwen3 Max leads

Mistral Medium 3.1: 10.6 (#341), Qwen3 Max: 22.6 (#190)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.1	Qwen3 Max
NYT Connections (extended)	6.5%	30.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark	—	72.5%
Chess Puzzles	—	4%
Thematic Generalization	20.3%	—
LMArena Hard Prompts	—	1448
Mystery Game Puzzles	—	5%
DTBench	—	82.1%
LMCA	—	28.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index	—	142.38

Math Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.1: —, Qwen3 Max: 38.7 (#131)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.1	Qwen3 Max
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)	—	18.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	73.3%
LMArena Math	—	1446
MATH Level 5	—	97.1%

Knowledge Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.1: —, Qwen3 Max: 48.1 (#78)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.1	Qwen3 Max
GPQA Diamond	—	72.6%
SimpleQA Verified	—	48.7%
LMArena Expert	—	1455

Multilingual Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.1: —, Qwen3 Max: 53.7 (#62)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.1	Qwen3 Max
LMArena Non-English	—	1429
LMArena Chinese	—	1478
LMArena French	—	1449
LMArena German	—	1463
LMArena Japanese	—	1397
LMArena Korean	—	1399
LMArena Russian	—	1428
LMArena Spanish	—	1462

Instruction Following Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.1: —, Qwen3 Max: 74.8 (#87)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.1	Qwen3 Max
LMArena Instruction Following	—	1419

Long Context Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.1: —, Qwen3 Max: 41.6 (#134)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.1	Qwen3 Max
Fiction.LiveBench	—	66.7%
CL-bench	—	14.5%
LMArena Longer Query	—	1438

Writing & Preference Qwen3 Max leads

Mistral Medium 3.1: 55.5 (#145), Qwen3 Max: 62.4 (#76)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.1	Qwen3 Max
LMArena Text	—	1439
LMArena Creative Writing	—	1402
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	1476	—
LMArena Multi-Turn	—	1446

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Medium 3.1 better than Qwen3 Max?

Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium 3.1 or Qwen3 Max?

Mistral Medium 3.1 is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens; Qwen3 Max lists at $1.20 and $6.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3 Max does, with 262K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Medium 3.1 and Qwen3 Max share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Mistral Medium 3.1 has 3 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Max has 33.