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MiniMax: MiniMax M3 vs Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

MiniMax: MiniMax M3 Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5
Vendorminimaxmistralai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score47.219.3
Input Price$0.30/M$1.50/M
Output Price$1.20/M$7.50/M
Context Window1,048,576262,144
Max Output512,000209,715
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index48.223.4

Who wins by task?

TaskMiniMax: MiniMax M3Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5
SQL Generation 139 133
Code Review 141 130
Code Completion 132 115
Code Refactoring 143 131
Bug Fixing 145 134
Unit Test Generation 129 124
Code Documentation 136 126
Regex Writing 124 120
CI/CD Pipelines 125 120
Frontend Component Design 127 124
Data Analysis 131 127
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 128
ETL Scripting 134 125
JSON Extraction 131 122
Bulk Data Labeling 129 119
OCR / Document Parsing 133 129
Table Extraction from PDFs 133 129
Long-Document Summarization 145 132
Short-Form Summarization 126 115
Blog Post Writing 127 121

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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