# MiniMax M1 vs Mistral Medium 3.5

> MiniMax M1 and Mistral Medium 3.5 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.7 vs 39.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/minimax-m1-vs-mistral-medium-3-5
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 16

## Summary

- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. MiniMax M1 scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Medium 3.5 in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where MiniMax M1 leads 25.8 to 16.6.
- MiniMax M1 is cheaper at $0.40 / $2.20 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium 3.5.
- MiniMax M1 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.

## Snapshot

| | MiniMax M1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | MiniMax | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 39.7 | 39.6 |
| Rank | 146 | 151 |
| Context | 1M | 262K |
| Input $/M | $0.40 | $1.50 |
| Output $/M | $2.20 | $7.50 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- MiniMax M1: 39.2 (#149)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 35.7 (#208)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1359 | 1461 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1263 |

## Reasoning

- MiniMax M1: 25.8 (#125)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 16.6 (#290)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1340 | 1436 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 41.4% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 12.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 141.42 |

## Math

- MiniMax M1: 34.8 (#152)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.4 (#113)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1360 | 1432 |

## Knowledge

- MiniMax M1: 35.7 (#168)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.3 (#123)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1316 | 1431 |

## Multimodal

- MiniMax M1: —
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 37.6 (#64)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1222 |

## Multilingual

- MiniMax M1: 46.0 (#157)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 52.1 (#93)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1320 | 1405 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1361 | 1443 |
| LMArena French | 1369 | 1448 |
| LMArena German | 1350 | 1453 |
| LMArena Korean | 1263 | 1387 |
| LMArena Russian | 1330 | 1396 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1354 | 1406 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1220 | — |

## Instruction Following

- MiniMax M1: 69.5 (#169)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.7 (#87)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1312 | 1414 |

## Long Context

- MiniMax M1: 41.4 (#136)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#101)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1326 | 1414 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 69.4% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- MiniMax M1: 53.3 (#155)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.6 (#113)

| Benchmark | MiniMax M1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1343 | 1421 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1298 | 1372 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1335 | 1423 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 993 |

## FAQ

### Is MiniMax M1 better than Mistral Medium 3.5?

MiniMax M1 and Mistral Medium 3.5 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.7 vs 39.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

### Which is cheaper, MiniMax M1 or Mistral Medium 3.5?

MiniMax M1 is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.5 lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

### Is MiniMax M1 or Mistral Medium 3.5 better for coding?

MiniMax M1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.2 versus 35.7 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

MiniMax M1 does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

### How many benchmarks do MiniMax M1 and Mistral Medium 3.5 share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. MiniMax M1 has 18 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22.