Model comparison

Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Qwen3 Coder Next

Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.2 to 34.3 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3 Coder Next costs 10× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium 3.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 0 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral AI

40.2

Rank #152 Confirmed

Qwen3 Coder Next

Alibaba (Qwen)

34.3

Rank #232 Reported

Summary

The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3 Coder Next leads 22.4 to 17.3.
Qwen3 Coder Next is cheaper at $0.12 / $0.80 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium 3.5.

Side by side

Mistral Medium 3.5 and Qwen3 Coder Next specifications
	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 Coder Next
Provider	Mistral AI	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	40.2	34.3
Released	—	2026-02-02
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	262K	262K
Max output	210K	66K
Input $ / M tokens	$1.50	$0.12
Output $ / M tokens	$7.50	$0.80
Results tracked	22	3

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.0 (#213), Qwen3 Coder Next: 36.3 (#210)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 Coder Next
LMArena WebDev	1264	—
SciCode	—	32.3%
WeirdML	—	34.4%
LMArena Coding	1461	—

Reasoning Qwen3 Coder Next leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 17.3 (#295), Qwen3 Coder Next: 22.4 (#196)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 Coder Next
Kagi LLM Benchmark	41.4%	—
NYT Connections (extended)	12.9%	—
CritPt	—	0%
LMArena Hard Prompts	1436	—
Epoch Capabilities Index	141.35	—

Math Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.1 (#113), Qwen3 Coder Next: —

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 Coder Next
LMArena Math	1431	—

Knowledge Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: 40.0 (#126), Qwen3 Coder Next: —

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 Coder Next
LMArena Expert	1432	—

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: 38.3 (#65), Qwen3 Coder Next: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 Coder Next
LMArena Vision	1223	—

Multilingual Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: 51.9 (#100), Qwen3 Coder Next: —

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 Coder Next
LMArena Non-English	1404	—
LMArena Chinese	1442	—
LMArena French	1448	—
LMArena German	1451	—
LMArena Korean	1385	—
LMArena Russian	1395	—
LMArena Spanish	1409	—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.6 (#90), Qwen3 Coder Next: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 Coder Next
LMArena Instruction Following	1415	—

Long Context Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#103), Qwen3 Coder Next: —

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 Coder Next
LMArena Longer Query	1415	—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.5 (#117), Qwen3 Coder Next: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 Coder Next
LMArena Text	1421	—
LMArena Creative Writing	1374	—
EQ-Bench 4	993	—
LMArena Multi-Turn	1423	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Medium 3.5 better than Qwen3 Coder Next?

Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium 3.5 or Qwen3 Coder Next?

Qwen3 Coder Next is cheaper. It lists at $0.12 per million input tokens and $0.80 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.5 lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

Is Mistral Medium 3.5 or Qwen3 Coder Next better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (36.0 vs 36.3); test both on your own repository before choosing.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 262K tokens.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Medium 3.5 and Qwen3 Coder Next share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Coder Next has 3.