AI Rankings
Mistral Medium 3.5: Score, Price and Context Window
Data updated
- Mistral AI
- Open weights
- Released Apr 2026
Its score range overlaps with Gemini 2.5 Flash (May 2025), the model just above it, so a small gap in rank is not a meaningful difference.
Best for
- Running it yourself: its weights can be downloaded (read the licence terms first).
These lines are worked out from the numbers on this page, not from hands-on testing.
Key facts
- Price per million tokens
- $1.50 in / $7.50 out
- Blended $3.00. Cached input $0.15. List price from Mistral AI, checked 26 Oct 2026.
Features listed by the price list: Image input, Tool use, Reasoning, Structured output.
We do not have benchmark results for Mistral Medium 3.5 yet. It is shown as "Not measured" rather than guessed.
How Mistral Medium 3.5 stacks up
- Overall capability141.4
Better than 57% of the other 269 modelsUpper half
Epoch Capabilities Index: one score that combines many tests.
- Human preference: chat1426
Better than 50% of the other 165 modelsUpper half
How often people pick its answers over another model's on Arena.
- Human preference: coding1478
Better than 50% of the other 165 modelsUpper half
How often people pick its answers to coding questions on Arena.
- Human preference: web pages1264
Better than 5% of the other 84 models
How often people pick the web pages and small apps it builds on Arena.
- Human preference: images1200
Better than 22% of the other 84 models
How often people pick its answers about pictures on Arena.
- Price$3.00 per 1M
Cheaper than 29% of the other 200 priced models
Blended price per million tokens. Lower is better, so the cheapest models sit on the right.
- Context window262K tokens
Larger context window than 50% of the other 198 modelsUpper half
How much text it can read at once. Bigger suits long documents.
Where Mistral Medium 3.5 ranks
What it costs in everyday terms
- 100 chats
- $0.53
- Cost of 100 chats assumes each chat sends 1,000 tokens (about 750 words) and gets 500 tokens (about 375 words) back.
- A 300-page book
- $0.15
- Cost to read a 300-page book assumes about 100,000 input tokens and no reply. A real book varies with page size and language.
- Blended price
- $3.00 per 1M
- Three parts input to one part output. Our own calculation for comparing models.
Assumptions: 100 chats of about 1,000 tokens in and 500 tokens back. a 300-page book of about 100,000 tokens, read once with no reply.
Similar models
Questions about Mistral Medium 3.5
- How much does Mistral Medium 3.5 cost?
- Mistral Medium 3.5 costs $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens, using the list price from Mistral AI as of 26 Oct 2026. That is about $0.53 for 100 chats of about 1,000 tokens in and 500 tokens back. Confirm on the maker's site before you buy, because prices change.
- What is the context window of Mistral Medium 3.5?
- Mistral Medium 3.5 has a context window of 262K tokens, roughly 197,000 words of text read at once. A single answer can be up to 262K tokens long.
- Is Mistral Medium 3.5 open source?
- Mistral Medium 3.5 has open weights: its trained parameters can be downloaded. That is not always the same as open source, because licence terms differ, so read the licence before you use it commercially.
- How good is Mistral Medium 3.5 compared with other AI models?
- On the Epoch Capabilities Index, Mistral Medium 3.5 scores 141.4 (likely range 138.5 to 144.3), which ranks 115 of 270 models we track. On Arena's human-vote text board it is ranked 83 of 166. Scores close together are a tie in practice.
- How does Mistral Medium 3.5 compare with Gemini 2.5 Flash (May 2025)?
- On quality, neither model leads clearly across the 1 measure both have. 1 measure is too close to call. See the full comparison for every measure.
- How current are these numbers for Mistral Medium 3.5?
- The newest data on this page is dated 26 Oct 2026. Scores come from Epoch AI and Arena, prices from the open LiteLLM price list.
Where this data comes from
- Epoch AI: Benchmark data: Epoch AI, 'Capabilities & benchmarking', epoch.ai/benchmarks (CC BY 4.0). We match models across sources, rank them and show them in charts. Scores are not changed. Epoch AI does not endorse this site.
- Arena (formerly LMArena): Human-preference ratings: Arena (arena.ai) leaderboard dataset, CC BY 4.0. We keep the latest published ratings, match them to models from other sources and rank them. Ratings are not changed. Arena does not endorse this site.
- LiteLLM model price list: Prices and context windows: LiteLLM model price list (github.com/BerriAI/litellm, MIT licence). We use the model maker's own price entry when there is one. Prices change often, so always confirm on the maker's site before you buy.
Newest data on this page: 26 Oct 2026. Prices are list prices and change often, so confirm on the maker's site before you buy. Sponsors never change a score or an order. How we calculate this · Report a mistake