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Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B

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

Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B
Vendormistralaiqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score19.335.5
Input Price$1.50/M$0.20/M
Output Price$7.50/M$1.56/M
Context Window262,144262,144
Max Output209,71565,536
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index23.437.8

Who wins by task?

TaskMistral: Mistral Medium 3.5Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B
SQL Generation 133 135
Code Review 130 133
Code Completion 115 129
Code Refactoring 131 133
Bug Fixing 134 137
Unit Test Generation 124 125
Code Documentation 126 129
Regex Writing 120 123
CI/CD Pipelines 120 121
Frontend Component Design 124 126
Data Analysis 127 129
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 128 129
ETL Scripting 125 127
JSON Extraction 122 131
Bulk Data Labeling 119 129
OCR / Document Parsing 129 130
Table Extraction from PDFs 129 130
Long-Document Summarization 132 135
Short-Form Summarization 115 125
Blog Post Writing 121 123

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

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