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Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B

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

Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Vendormistralaiqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score19.326.9
Input Price$1.50/M$0.15/M
Output Price$7.50/M$1.00/M
Context Window262,144262,144
Max Output209,715235,929
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index23.430.1

Who wins by task?

TaskMistral: Mistral Medium 3.5Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
SQL Generation 133 134
Code Review 130 132
Code Completion 115 129
Code Refactoring 131 132
Bug Fixing 134 136
Unit Test Generation 124 124
Code Documentation 126 129
Regex Writing 120 122
CI/CD Pipelines 120 120
Frontend Component Design 124 125
Data Analysis 127 128
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 128 129
ETL Scripting 125 126
JSON Extraction 122 131
Bulk Data Labeling 119 129
OCR / Document Parsing 129 129
Table Extraction from PDFs 129 129
Long-Document Summarization 132 134
Short-Form Summarization 115 125
Blog Post Writing 121 122

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

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