Model comparison

MiniMax M1 vs Mistral Medium 3.5

MiniMax M1 and Mistral Medium 3.5 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (40.3 vs 40.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 16 shared benchmarks.

MiniMax M1

MiniMax

40.3

Rank #150 Confirmed

Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral AI

40.2

Rank #152 Confirmed

Summary

They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. MiniMax M1 scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Medium 3.5 in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in reasoning, where MiniMax M1 leads 26.9 to 17.3.
MiniMax M1 is cheaper at $0.55 / $2.20 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium 3.5.
MiniMax M1 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.

Side by side

MiniMax M1 and Mistral Medium 3.5 specifications
	MiniMax M1	Mistral Medium 3.5
Provider	MiniMax	Mistral AI
Noometry Index	40.3	40.2
Released	2025-06-13	—
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	1M	262K
Max output	40K	210K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.55	$1.50
Output $ / M tokens	$2.20	$7.50
Results tracked	18	22

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax M1 leads

MiniMax M1: 39.9 (#153), Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.0 (#213)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax M1	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Coding	1359	1461
LMArena WebDev	—	1264

Reasoning MiniMax M1 leads

MiniMax M1: 26.9 (#126), Mistral Medium 3.5: 17.3 (#295)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax M1	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Hard Prompts	1339	1436
Kagi LLM Benchmark	—	41.4%
NYT Connections (extended)	—	12.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index	—	141.35

Math Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

MiniMax M1: 37.5 (#151), Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.1 (#113)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax M1	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Math	1361	1431

Knowledge Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

MiniMax M1: 36.4 (#170), Mistral Medium 3.5: 40.0 (#126)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax M1	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Expert	1317	1432

Multimodal Not comparable

MiniMax M1: —, Mistral Medium 3.5: 38.3 (#65)

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax M1	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Vision	—	1223

Multilingual Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

MiniMax M1: 45.8 (#163), Mistral Medium 3.5: 51.9 (#100)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax M1	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Non-English	1319	1404
LMArena Chinese	1360	1442
LMArena French	1370	1448
LMArena German	1350	1451
LMArena Korean	1266	1385
LMArena Russian	1329	1395
LMArena Spanish	1353	1409
LMArena Japanese	1217	—

Instruction Following Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

MiniMax M1: 69.3 (#174), Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.6 (#90)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax M1	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Instruction Following	1312	1415

Long Context Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

MiniMax M1: 41.4 (#141), Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#103)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax M1	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Longer Query	1326	1415
Fiction.LiveBench	69.4%	—

Writing & Preference Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

MiniMax M1: 53.1 (#161), Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.5 (#117)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	MiniMax M1	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text	1343	1421
LMArena Creative Writing	1298	1374
LMArena Multi-Turn	1335	1423
EQ-Bench 4	—	993

Frequently asked questions

Is MiniMax M1 better than Mistral Medium 3.5?

MiniMax M1 and Mistral Medium 3.5 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (40.3 vs 40.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, MiniMax M1 or Mistral Medium 3.5?

MiniMax M1 is cheaper. It lists at $0.55 per million input tokens and $2.20 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.5 lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

Is MiniMax M1 or Mistral Medium 3.5 better for coding?

MiniMax M1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.9 versus 36.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

MiniMax M1 does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do MiniMax M1 and Mistral Medium 3.5 share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. MiniMax M1 has 18 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22.