Model comparison

Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Qwen3.7 Max

Qwen3.7 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.4 to 39.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 16 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral AI

39.6

Rank #151 Confirmed

Qwen3.7 Max

Alibaba (Qwen)

51.4

Rank #35 Confirmed

Summary

They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.7 Max in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.7 Max leads 48.4 to 16.6.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 12.9% for Mistral Medium 3.5 and 85.1% for Qwen3.7 Max.
Mistral Medium 3.5 is cheaper at $1.50 / $7.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $7.50 for Qwen3.7 Max.
Qwen3.7 Max 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 Qwen3.7 Max specifications
	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.7 Max
Provider	Mistral AI	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	39.6	51.4
Released	—	2026-05-19
Weights	Open	Proprietary
Context window	262K	1M
Max output	210K	131K
Input $ / M tokens	$1.50	$2.50
Output $ / M tokens	$7.50	$7.50
Results tracked	22	33

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.7 Max leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 35.7 (#208), Qwen3.7 Max: 50.2 (#43)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.7 Max
LMArena WebDev	1263	1515
LMArena Coding	1461	1498
SWE-bench Verified	—	77.3%
SciCode	—	48.8%
ALE-Bench	—	1,189

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: —, Qwen3.7 Max: 21.8 (#129)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.7 Max
GBAEval	—	0.4%

Reasoning Qwen3.7 Max leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 16.6 (#290), Qwen3.7 Max: 48.4 (#36)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.7 Max
NYT Connections (extended)	12.9%	85.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts	1436	1483
Epoch Capabilities Index	141.42	153.74
SimpleBench	—	70.4%
Kagi LLM Benchmark	41.4%	—
CritPt	—	13.4%
Chess Puzzles	—	19%
EBR-Bench	—	9.5%
Mystery Game Puzzles	—	32%
DTBench	—	92.3%
LMCA	—	44%

Math Qwen3.7 Max leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.4 (#113), Qwen3.7 Max: 62.3 (#26)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.7 Max
LMArena Math	1432	1488
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)	—	64.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4	—	34.1%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	95.6%
ProofBench	—	26%

Knowledge Qwen3.7 Max leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.3 (#123), Qwen3.7 Max: 61.7 (#24)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.7 Max
LMArena Expert	1431	1488
GPQA Diamond	—	90.9%
SimpleQA Verified	—	55.8%

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: 37.6 (#64), Qwen3.7 Max: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.7 Max
LMArena Vision	1222	—

Multilingual Qwen3.7 Max leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 52.1 (#93), Qwen3.7 Max: 57.1 (#13)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.7 Max
LMArena Non-English	1405	1475
LMArena Chinese	1443	1533
LMArena Russian	1396	1482
LMArena French	1448	—
LMArena German	1453	—
LMArena Korean	1387	—
LMArena Spanish	1406	—

Instruction Following Qwen3.7 Max leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.7 (#87), Qwen3.7 Max: 76.9 (#34)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.7 Max
LMArena Instruction Following	1414	1460

Long Context Qwen3.7 Max leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#101), Qwen3.7 Max: 45.4 (#34)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.7 Max
LMArena Longer Query	1414	1484

Writing & Preference Qwen3.7 Max leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.6 (#113), Qwen3.7 Max: 65.2 (#52)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.7 Max
LMArena Text	1421	1476
LMArena Creative Writing	1372	1450
EQ-Bench 4	993	1110
LMArena Multi-Turn	1423	1482

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Medium 3.5 better than Qwen3.7 Max?

Qwen3.7 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.4 to 39.6 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium 3.5 or Qwen3.7 Max?

Mistral Medium 3.5 is cheaper. It lists at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens; Qwen3.7 Max lists at $2.50 and $7.50.

Is Mistral Medium 3.5 or Qwen3.7 Max better for coding?

Qwen3.7 Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.2 versus 35.7 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.7 Max does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Medium 3.5 and Qwen3.7 Max share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.7 Max has 33.