Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 | Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | mistralai | z-ai |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 53.0 | 56.8 |
| Input Price | $1.50/M | $1.20/M |
| Output Price | $7.50/M | $4.00/M |
| Context Window | 262,144 | 202,752 |
| Max Output | 209,715 | 131,072 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 49.4 | 56.9 |
| ai_index_agentic | 31.3 | - |
| ai_index_coding | 77.4 | - |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, GLM 5V Turbo costs $2.20 and Mistral Medium 3.5 costs $3.38, so GLM 5V Turbo is about 1.5 times cheaper for the same work.
Both take in a similar amount of text: 262,144 and 202,752 tokens, about 393 and 304 pages.
Only GLM 5V Turbo offers video input.
On our blended benchmark score GLM 5V Turbo leads 56.8 to 53.0.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher on 20 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
Pick Mistral Medium 3.5 if you need the stronger all-round task scores; pick GLM 5V Turbo if you need lower cost, video input or benchmark performance.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 | Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 153 | 136 |
| Code Review | 147 | 134 |
| Code Completion | 116 | 116 |
| Code Refactoring | 144 | 133 |
| Bug Fixing | 155 | 138 |
| Unit Test Generation | 140 | 126 |
| Code Documentation | 131 | 128 |
| Regex Writing | 128 | 124 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 132 | 122 |
| Frontend Component Design | 137 | 128 |
| Data Analysis | 151 | 132 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 142 | 127 |
| ETL Scripting | 138 | 128 |
| JSON Extraction | 134 | 123 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 123 | 120 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 139 | 129 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 139 | 129 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 141 | 134 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 119 | 117 |
| Blog Post Writing | 129 | 124 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →