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Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B

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

Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B
Vendormistralaiqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score19.318.3
Input Price$1.50/M$0.10/M
Output Price$7.50/M$0.15/M
Context Window262,144262,144
Max Output209,71532,768
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index23.422.5

Who wins by task?

TaskMistral: Mistral Medium 3.5Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B
SQL Generation 133 133
Code Review 130 130
Code Completion 115 129
Code Refactoring 131 131
Bug Fixing 134 134
Unit Test Generation 124 123
Code Documentation 126 128
Regex Writing 120 122
CI/CD Pipelines 120 119
Frontend Component Design 124 124
Data Analysis 127 127
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 128 129
ETL Scripting 125 125
JSON Extraction 122 131
Bulk Data Labeling 119 129
Long-Document Summarization 132 133
Short-Form Summarization 115 125
Blog Post Writing 121 121

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

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