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Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20

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

Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20
Vendormistralaiqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score19.3-
Input Price$1.50/M$0.30/M
Output Price$7.50/M$1.80/M
Context Window262,1441,000,000
Max Output209,71565,536
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index23.4-

Who wins by task?

TaskMistral: Mistral Medium 3.5Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20
SQL Generation 133 133
Code Review 130 132
Code Completion 115 131
Code Refactoring 131 136
Bug Fixing 134 136
Unit Test Generation 124 124
Code Documentation 126 131
Regex Writing 120 119
CI/CD Pipelines 120 120
Frontend Component Design 124 122
Data Analysis 127 124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 128 133
ETL Scripting 125 128
JSON Extraction 122 131
Bulk Data Labeling 119 129
OCR / Document Parsing 129 131
Table Extraction from PDFs 129 131
Long-Document Summarization 132 137
Short-Form Summarization 115 123
Blog Post Writing 121 121

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

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