# Mistral Medium vs Qwen3.6 Max Preview

> Qwen3.6 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.1 to 36.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-medium-vs-qwen3-6-max-preview
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 19

## Summary

- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Medium scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Max Preview in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads 57.6 to 24.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 32.2% for Mistral Medium and 91.1% for Qwen3.6 Max Preview.
- Both cost about the same: $1.50 input and $7.50 output per million tokens.
- Mistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Medium | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 36.0 | 51.1 |
| Rank | 211 | 36 |
| Context | 262K | 262K |
| Input $/M | $1.50 | $1.30 |
| Output $/M | $7.50 | $7.80 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Mistral Medium: 33.8 (#241)
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 48.6 (#50)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1434 | 1472 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 76.7% |
| FrontierCode | 8% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1482 |
| SciCode | 40.2% | — |
| WeirdML | 43.7% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 763.98 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#84)
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.7% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 4,254 |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Medium: 23.3 (#165)
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 40.8 (#47)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1426 | 1457 |
| DTBench | 75.5% | 87.2% |
| LMCA | 26.1% | 42.5% |
| SimpleBench | — | 63% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 50% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 74.1% |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 20% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 19% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 26.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 149.27 |

## Math

- Mistral Medium: 27.2 (#238)
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 52.2 (#40)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 32.2% | 91.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1409 | 1465 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | 23.1% |
| ProofBench | 9% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 81.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 4.2% |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Medium: 24.9 (#260)
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 57.6 (#35)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 59.5% | 87.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1408 | 1476 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.5% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 52% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 22.7% | — |

## Multimodal

- Mistral Medium: 34.6 (#82)
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1172 | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Medium: 52.3 (#86)
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.3 (#46)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1408 | 1436 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1448 | 1487 |
| LMArena French | 1460 | 1449 |
| LMArena Russian | 1411 | 1444 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1433 | 1452 |
| LMArena German | 1433 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1378 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1382 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Medium: 73.9 (#111)
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 75.8 (#51)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1398 | 1437 |

## Long Context

- Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#108)
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 44.6 (#59)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1406 | 1457 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Medium: 60.2 (#97)
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 64.0 (#58)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1424 | 1447 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1391 | 1435 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1418 | 1456 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 77.3% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral Medium better than Qwen3.6 Max Preview?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.1 to 36.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium or Qwen3.6 Max Preview?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview is cheaper. It lists at $1.30 per million input tokens and $7.80 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

### Is Mistral Medium or Qwen3.6 Max Preview better for coding?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.6 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 262K tokens.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral Medium and Qwen3.6 Max Preview share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Medium has 36 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Max Preview has 29.