Model comparison

Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Qwen3 Max

Qwen3 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.7 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 Max

Alibaba (Qwen)

43.7

Rank #87 Confirmed

Summary

They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen3 Max in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3 Max leads 48.1 to 40.0.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 41.4% for Mistral Medium 3.5 and 72.5% for Qwen3 Max.
Qwen3 Max is cheaper at $1.20 / $6 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium 3.5.
Mistral Medium 3.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Mistral Medium 3.5 and Qwen3 Max specifications
	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 Max
Provider	Mistral AI	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	40.2	43.7
Released	—	2025-09-23
Weights	Open	Proprietary
Context window	262K	262K
Max output	210K	66K
Input $ / M tokens	$1.50	$1.20
Output $ / M tokens	$7.50	$6
Results tracked	22	33

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 Max leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.0 (#213), Qwen3 Max: 43.0 (#93)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 Max
LMArena Coding	1461	1456
LMArena WebDev	1264	—
ALE-Bench	—	370.45

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: —, Qwen3 Max: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 Max
Vending-Bench 2	—	71.56

Reasoning Qwen3 Max leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 17.3 (#295), Qwen3 Max: 22.6 (#190)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 Max
Kagi LLM Benchmark	41.4%	72.5%
NYT Connections (extended)	12.9%	30.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts	1436	1448
Epoch Capabilities Index	141.35	142.38
Chess Puzzles	—	4%
Mystery Game Puzzles	—	5%
DTBench	—	82.1%
LMCA	—	28.3%

Math Too close to call

Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.1 (#113), Qwen3 Max: 38.7 (#131)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 Max
LMArena Math	1431	1446
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)	—	18.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	73.3%
MATH Level 5	—	97.1%

Knowledge Qwen3 Max leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 40.0 (#126), Qwen3 Max: 48.1 (#78)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 Max
LMArena Expert	1432	1455
GPQA Diamond	—	72.6%
SimpleQA Verified	—	48.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

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

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 Max
LMArena Vision	1223	—

Multilingual Qwen3 Max leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 51.9 (#100), Qwen3 Max: 53.7 (#62)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 Max
LMArena Non-English	1404	1429
LMArena Chinese	1442	1478
LMArena French	1448	1449
LMArena German	1451	1463
LMArena Korean	1385	1399
LMArena Russian	1395	1428
LMArena Spanish	1409	1462
LMArena Japanese	—	1397

Instruction Following Too close to call

Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.6 (#90), Qwen3 Max: 74.8 (#87)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 Max
LMArena Instruction Following	1415	1419

Long Context Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#103), Qwen3 Max: 41.6 (#134)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 Max
LMArena Longer Query	1415	1438
Fiction.LiveBench	—	66.7%
CL-bench	—	14.5%

Writing & Preference Qwen3 Max leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.5 (#117), Qwen3 Max: 62.4 (#76)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3 Max
LMArena Text	1421	1439
LMArena Creative Writing	1374	1402
LMArena Multi-Turn	1423	1446
EQ-Bench 4	993	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Medium 3.5 better than Qwen3 Max?

Qwen3 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.7 to 40.2 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium 3.5 or Qwen3 Max?

Qwen3 Max is cheaper. It lists at $1.20 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.5 lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

Is Mistral Medium 3.5 or Qwen3 Max better for coding?

Qwen3 Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.0 versus 36.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 262K tokens.

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

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