# Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct

> Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 37.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-medium-3-5-vs-qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads 24.7 to 16.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 41.4% for Mistral Medium 3.5 and 49.5% for Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct.
- Both cost about the same: $1.50 input and $7.50 output per million tokens.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 39.6 | 37.7 |
| Rank | 151 | 186 |
| Context | 262K | 262K |
| Input $/M | $1.50 | $1.50 |
| Output $/M | $7.50 | $7.50 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral Medium 3.5: 35.7 (#208)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 36.2 (#199)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1263 | 1275 |
| LMArena Coding | 1461 | 1413 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 55.4% |
| GSO | — | 4.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 41.2% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 461.45 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.44 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mistral Medium 3.5: —
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.7 (#116)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 27.2% |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Medium 3.5: 16.6 (#290)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 24.7 (#141)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 41.4% | 49.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1436 | 1372 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 12.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.42 | — |

## Math

- Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.4 (#113)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 34.9 (#151)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1432 | 1364 |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.3 (#123)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 36.4 (#159)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1431 | 1337 |

## Multimodal

- Mistral Medium 3.5: 37.6 (#64)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1222 | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Medium 3.5: 52.1 (#93)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.8 (#143)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1405 | 1345 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1443 | 1356 |
| LMArena French | 1448 | 1394 |
| LMArena German | 1453 | 1324 |
| LMArena Korean | 1387 | 1307 |
| LMArena Russian | 1396 | 1367 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1406 | 1360 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1309 |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.7 (#87)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.8 (#142)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1414 | 1356 |

## Long Context

- Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#101)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#126)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1414 | 1379 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.6 (#113)
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.5 (#142)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1421 | 1356 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1372 | 1333 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1423 | 1365 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 993 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral Medium 3.5 better than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 37.7 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium 3.5 or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.5 lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

### Is Mistral Medium 3.5 or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (35.7 vs 36.2); 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 480B-A35B Instruct share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.