# Mistral Medium vs Qwen3.5 Max Preview

> Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-medium-vs-qwen3-5-max-preview
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Medium scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 Max Preview in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads 41.8 to 25.0.
- Mistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 36.3 | 45.3 |
| Rank | 218 | 71 |
| Context | 262K | — |
| Input $/M | $1.50 | — |
| Output $/M | $7.50 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 44.0 (#77)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1434 | 1487 |
| FrontierCode | 8% | — |
| SciCode | 40.2% | — |
| WeirdML | 43.7% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 763.98 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.7% | — |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 30.8 (#84)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1426 | 1483 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 50% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| DTBench | 75.5% | — |
| LMCA | 26.1% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 26.9% | — |

## Math

- Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 40.1 (#94)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1408 | 1474 |
| 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)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 41.8 (#107)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1408 | 1489 |
| GPQA Diamond | 59.5% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 22.7% | — |

## Multimodal

- Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1172 | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 56.2 (#22)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1408 | 1465 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1447 | 1534 |
| LMArena French | 1459 | 1484 |
| LMArena German | 1432 | 1487 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1378 | 1495 |
| LMArena Korean | 1380 | 1438 |
| LMArena Russian | 1411 | 1471 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1433 | 1470 |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 77.0 (#31)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1398 | 1467 |

## Long Context

- Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 45.2 (#45)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1406 | 1476 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)
- Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 66.0 (#41)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1424 | 1470 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1391 | 1464 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1418 | 1478 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 77.3% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral Medium better than Qwen3.5 Max Preview?

Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Mistral Medium or Qwen3.5 Max Preview better for coding?

Qwen3.5 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral Medium and Qwen3.5 Max Preview share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Medium has 36 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Max Preview has 17.