# Mistral Medium vs Mistral Medium 3.5

> Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.2 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-medium-vs-mistral-medium-3-5
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Medium scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral Medium 3.5 in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Mistral Medium 3.5 leads 40.0 to 25.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 50% for Mistral Medium and 41.4% for Mistral Medium 3.5.
- Both cost about the same: $1.50 input and $7.50 output per million tokens.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Medium | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 36.3 | 40.2 |
| Rank | 218 | 152 |
| Context | 262K | 262K |
| Input $/M | $1.50 | $1.50 |
| Output $/M | $7.50 | $7.50 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.0 (#213)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1434 | 1461 |
| FrontierCode | 8% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1264 |
| SciCode | 40.2% | — |
| WeirdML | 43.7% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 763.98 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.7% | — |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 17.3 (#295)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 50% | 41.4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1426 | 1436 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 12.9% |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| DTBench | 75.5% | — |
| LMCA | 26.1% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 26.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 141.35 |

## Math

- Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.1 (#113)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1408 | 1431 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 32.2% | — |
| ProofBench | 9% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 81.6% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 40.0 (#126)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1408 | 1432 |
| GPQA Diamond | 59.5% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 22.7% | — |

## Multimodal

- Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 38.3 (#65)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1172 | 1223 |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 51.9 (#100)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1408 | 1404 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1447 | 1442 |
| LMArena French | 1459 | 1448 |
| LMArena German | 1432 | 1451 |
| LMArena Korean | 1380 | 1385 |
| LMArena Russian | 1411 | 1395 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1433 | 1409 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1378 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.6 (#90)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1398 | 1415 |

## Long Context

- Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#103)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1406 | 1415 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.5 (#117)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1424 | 1421 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1391 | 1374 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1418 | 1423 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 77.3% | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 993 |

## FAQ

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

Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.2 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium 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 Medium lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

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

Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.0 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 262K tokens.

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

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Medium has 36 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22.