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Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo

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

Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo
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Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score19.336.7
Input Price$1.50/M$1.20/M
Output Price$7.50/M$4.00/M
Context Window262,144202,752
Max Output209,715131,072
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index23.438.8

Who wins by task?

TaskMistral: Mistral Medium 3.5Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo
SQL Generation 133 134
Code Review 130 131
Code Completion 115 115
Code Refactoring 131 130
Bug Fixing 134 135
Unit Test Generation 124 124
Code Documentation 126 126
Regex Writing 120 122
CI/CD Pipelines 120 120
Frontend Component Design 124 126
Data Analysis 127 129
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 128 127
ETL Scripting 125 125
JSON Extraction 122 123
Bulk Data Labeling 119 120
OCR / Document Parsing 129 129
Table Extraction from PDFs 129 129
Long-Document Summarization 132 131
Short-Form Summarization 115 116
Blog Post Writing 121 122

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

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