# Mistral Large vs Mistral Medium 3.5

> Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 31.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-large-vs-mistral-medium-3-5
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Large scores higher in 0 categories and Mistral Medium 3.5 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Mistral Medium 3.5 leads 36.4 to 17.1.
- Both cost about the same: $2 input and $6 output per million tokens.
- Mistral Medium 3.5 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Large | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 31.6 | 39.6 |
| Rank | 258 | 151 |
| Context | 131K | 262K |
| Input $/M | $2 | $1.50 |
| Output $/M | $6 | $7.50 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral Large: 33.8 (#240)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 35.7 (#208)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1277 | 1461 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1263 |
| SciCode | 36.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 30% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 47.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 38.3% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 264.7 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 62.2% | — |
| MBPP+ | 59.5% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mistral Large: 28.4 (#83)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 38.4% | — |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Large: 15.4 (#305)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 16.6 (#290)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1436 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 128.52 | 141.42 |
| SimpleBench | 22.5% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 41.4% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 12.9% |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 43.5% | — |
| DTBench | 65.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 50.1% | — |
| LMCA | 16.7% | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.1 | — |
| LiveBench | 48.4% | — |

## Math

- Mistral Large: 17.1 (#285)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.4 (#113)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1262 | 1432 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.5% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 28.1% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 42.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 50.3% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Large: 30.0 (#224)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.3 (#123)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1232 | 1431 |
| GPQA Diamond | 51.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 59.9% | — |
| Confabulations | 21.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 4.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.5% | — |
| MMLU | 80% | — |

## Multimodal

- Mistral Large: —
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 37.6 (#64)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1222 |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Large: 40.1 (#214)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 52.1 (#93)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1237 | 1405 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1240 | 1443 |
| LMArena French | 1324 | 1448 |
| LMArena German | 1254 | 1453 |
| LMArena Korean | 1202 | 1387 |
| LMArena Russian | 1257 | 1396 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1268 | 1406 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1187 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Large: 68.1 (#186)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.7 (#87)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1249 | 1414 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.9% | — |
| IFEval | 87.7% | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral Large: 38.3 (#194)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#101)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1262 | 1414 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Large: 40.9 (#237)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.6 (#113)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1266 | 1421 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1243 | 1372 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1260 | 1423 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 69% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 985 | — |
| WildBench | 80.1% | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 993 |
| LiveBench Language | 39.4% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral Large better than Mistral Medium 3.5?

Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 31.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Mistral Large or Mistral Medium 3.5?

Mistral Medium 3.5 is cheaper. It lists at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens; Mistral Large lists at $2 and $6.

### Is Mistral Large or Mistral Medium 3.5 better for coding?

Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.7 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Medium 3.5 does, with 262K tokens against 131K.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral Large and Mistral Medium 3.5 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Large has 51 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22.