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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 2026-08-05.

Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20
Vendormistralaiqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score52.5-
Input Price$1.50/M$0.30/M
Output Price$7.50/M$1.80/M
Context Window262,1441,000,000
Max Output-65,536
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index49.4-
ai_index_agentic31.3-
ai_index_coding77.4-

Who wins by task?

TaskMistral: Mistral Medium 3.5Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20
SQL Generation 153 133
Code Review 147 132
Code Completion 116 131
Code Refactoring 144 136
Bug Fixing 155 136
Unit Test Generation 140 124
Regex Writing 128 119
CI/CD Pipelines 132 120
Frontend Component Design 137 122
Data Analysis 151 124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 142 133
ETL Scripting 138 128
JSON Extraction 134 131
Bulk Data Labeling 123 129
OCR / Document Parsing 139 131
Table Extraction from PDFs 139 131
Long-Document Summarization 141 137
Short-Form Summarization 119 123
Blog Post Writing 129 121

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

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