# Mistral vs Mistral Medium

> Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

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

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral scores higher in 0 categories and Mistral Medium in 8 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium leads 60.0 to 37.0.
- Mistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 36.3 |
| Rank | 303 | 218 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $1.50 |
| Output $/M | — | $7.50 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral: 33.8 (#250)
- Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1162 | 1434 |
| FrontierCode | — | 8% |
| SciCode | — | 40.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.7% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 763.98 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

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

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

## Reasoning

- Mistral: 22.2 (#200)
- Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1149 | 1426 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 50% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 75.5% |
| LMCA | — | 26.1% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 26.9% |

## Math

- Mistral: 22.3 (#278)
- Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1180 | 1408 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 32.2% |
| ProofBench | — | 9% |
| Omni-MATH | 7.2% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 81.6% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |

## Knowledge

- Mistral: 16.6 (#288)
- Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1125 | 1408 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 59.5% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 4.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | 27.7% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 22.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.3% | — |

## Multimodal

- Mistral: —
- Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1172 |

## Multilingual

- Mistral: 32.8 (#254)
- Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1129 | 1408 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1109 | 1447 |
| LMArena French | 1180 | 1459 |
| LMArena German | 1155 | 1432 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1013 | 1378 |
| LMArena Korean | 1032 | 1380 |
| LMArena Russian | 1168 | 1411 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1143 | 1433 |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral: 52.6 (#288)
- Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1152 | 1398 |
| IFEval | 56.8% | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral: 35.0 (#245)
- Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1153 | 1406 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral: 37.0 (#260)
- Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1165 | 1424 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1158 | 1391 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1147 | 1418 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 77.3% |
| WildBench | 66% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral better than Mistral Medium?

Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

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

They score almost the same on coding (33.8 vs 34.2); test both on your own repository before choosing.

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

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