Model comparison

Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Qwen3.6 Plus

Qwen3.6 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 40.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 19 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral AI

40.2

Rank #152 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Plus

Alibaba (Qwen)

47.5

Rank #62 Confirmed

Summary

They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Plus in 8 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.6 Plus leads 56.1 to 40.0.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 12.9% for Mistral Medium 3.5 and 60.3% for Qwen3.6 Plus.
Qwen3.6 Plus is cheaper at $0.50 / $3 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium 3.5.
Qwen3.6 Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
Mistral Medium 3.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Mistral Medium 3.5 and Qwen3.6 Plus specifications
	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.6 Plus
Provider	Mistral AI	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	40.2	47.5
Released	—	2026-03-31
Weights	Open	Proprietary
Context window	262K	1M
Max output	210K	66K
Input $ / M tokens	$1.50	$0.50
Output $ / M tokens	$7.50	$3
Results tracked	22	37

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.0 (#213), Qwen3.6 Plus: 40.8 (#130)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena WebDev	1264	1461
LMArena Coding	1461	1467
SWE-bench Verified	—	57.9%
SciCode	—	40.7%
ALE-Bench	—	670.15

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: —, Qwen3.6 Plus: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.6 Plus
Vending-Bench 2	—	5,115

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 17.3 (#295), Qwen3.6 Plus: 29.3 (#93)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.6 Plus
NYT Connections (extended)	12.9%	60.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts	1436	1449
Epoch Capabilities Index	141.35	147.65
Kagi LLM Benchmark	41.4%	—
CritPt	—	2.9%
Chess Puzzles	—	17%
Thematic Generalization	—	59.5%
Mystery Game Puzzles	—	12%
DTBench	—	81.9%
LMCA	—	33.1%

Math Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.1 (#113), Qwen3.6 Plus: 51.8 (#54)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Math	1431	1450
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)	—	38.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	93.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)	—	26.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)	—	8.3%

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 40.0 (#126), Qwen3.6 Plus: 56.1 (#45)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Expert	1432	1454
GPQA Diamond	—	88.4%
SimpleQA Verified	—	44.1%

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: 38.3 (#65), Qwen3.6 Plus: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Vision	1223	—

Multilingual Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 51.9 (#100), Qwen3.6 Plus: 53.3 (#70)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Non-English	1404	1424
LMArena Chinese	1442	1477
LMArena French	1448	1455
LMArena German	1451	1452
LMArena Korean	1385	1379
LMArena Russian	1395	1434
LMArena Spanish	1409	1432
LMArena Japanese	—	1389

Instruction Following Too close to call

Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.6 (#90), Qwen3.6 Plus: 75.0 (#74)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Instruction Following	1415	1425

Long Context Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#103), Qwen3.6 Plus: 45.2 (#49)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Longer Query	1415	1439
CL-bench	—	20.3%

Writing & Preference Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.5 (#117), Qwen3.6 Plus: 62.2 (#82)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text	1421	1437
LMArena Creative Writing	1374	1404
LMArena Multi-Turn	1423	1438
EQ-Bench 4	993	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Medium 3.5 better than Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 40.2 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium 3.5 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $3 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.5 lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

Is Mistral Medium 3.5 or Qwen3.6 Plus better for coding?

Qwen3.6 Plus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.8 versus 36.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.6 Plus does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Medium 3.5 and Qwen3.6 Plus share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Plus has 37.