# Hy3 vs Mistral Medium

> Hy3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.2 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/hy3-vs-mistral-medium
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Hy3 scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral Medium in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Hy3 leads 40.8 to 25.0.
- Hy3 is cheaper at $0.13 / $0.53 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium.

## Snapshot

| | Hy3 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Tencent | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 44.2 | 36.3 |
| Rank | 79 | 218 |
| Context | 262K | 262K |
| Input $/M | $0.13 | $1.50 |
| Output $/M | $0.53 | $7.50 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Hy3: 46.8 (#63)
- Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)

| Benchmark | Hy3 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1464 | 1434 |
| FrontierCode | — | 8% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1508 | — |
| SciCode | — | 40.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.7% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 763.98 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Hy3: —
- Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)

| Benchmark | Hy3 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.7% |

## Reasoning

- Hy3: 26.1 (#136)
- Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)

| Benchmark | Hy3 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1447 | 1426 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 50% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 41.2% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 75.5% |
| LMCA | — | 26.1% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 26.9% |

## Math

- Hy3: 40.1 (#93)
- Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)

| Benchmark | Hy3 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1475 | 1408 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 32.2% |
| ProofBench | — | 9% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 81.6% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |

## Knowledge

- Hy3: 40.8 (#114)
- Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)

| Benchmark | Hy3 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1460 | 1408 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 59.5% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 4.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 22.7% |

## Multimodal

- Hy3: —
- Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)

| Benchmark | Hy3 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1172 |

## Multilingual

- Hy3: 53.5 (#65)
- Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)

| Benchmark | Hy3 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1426 | 1408 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1493 | 1447 |
| LMArena French | 1461 | 1459 |
| LMArena German | 1439 | 1432 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1392 | 1378 |
| LMArena Korean | 1395 | 1380 |
| LMArena Russian | 1432 | 1411 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1456 | 1433 |

## Instruction Following

- Hy3: 75.1 (#70)
- Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)

| Benchmark | Hy3 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1426 | 1398 |

## Long Context

- Hy3: 44.1 (#75)
- Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)

| Benchmark | Hy3 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1442 | 1406 |

## Writing & Preference

- Hy3: 62.2 (#81)
- Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)

| Benchmark | Hy3 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1439 | 1424 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1402 | 1391 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1436 | 1418 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 77.3% |

## FAQ

### Is Hy3 better than Mistral Medium?

Hy3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.2 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Hy3 or Mistral Medium?

Hy3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.13 per million input tokens and $0.53 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

### Is Hy3 or Mistral Medium better for coding?

Hy3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.8 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 262K tokens.

### How many benchmarks do Hy3 and Mistral Medium share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Hy3 has 19 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.