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Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus

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

Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
Vendormistralaiqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score19.343.2
Input Price$1.50/M$0.33/M
Output Price$7.50/M$1.95/M
Context Window262,1441,000,000
Max Output209,71565,536
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index23.444.6

Who wins by task?

TaskMistral: Mistral Medium 3.5Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
SQL Generation 133 139
Code Review 130 140
Code Completion 115 132
Code Refactoring 131 143
Bug Fixing 134 144
Unit Test Generation 124 129
Code Documentation 126 135
Regex Writing 120 124
CI/CD Pipelines 120 125
Frontend Component Design 124 127
Data Analysis 127 130
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 128 135
ETL Scripting 125 134
JSON Extraction 122 131
Bulk Data Labeling 119 129
OCR / Document Parsing 129 133
Table Extraction from PDFs 129 133
Long-Document Summarization 132 144
Short-Form Summarization 115 125
Blog Post Writing 121 127

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

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