Model comparison
Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Qwen3.7 Flash
Mistral Medium 3.5 and Qwen3.7 Flash score almost the same on the Noometry Index (40.2 vs 39.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.7 Flash in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.7 Flash leads 28.2 to 17.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 12.9% for Mistral Medium 3.5 and 43.8% for Qwen3.7 Flash.
- Qwen3.7 Flash is cheaper at $0.03 / $0.13 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium 3.5.
- Qwen3.7 Flash accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
- Mistral Medium 3.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mistral Medium 3.5 | Qwen3.7 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 40.2 | 39.9 |
| Released | — | 2026-07-15 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 262K | 1M |
| Max output | 210K | 131K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1.50 | $0.03 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $7.50 | $0.13 |
| Results tracked | 22 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.0 (#213), Qwen3.7 Flash: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Qwen3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1264 | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1461 | — |
Reasoning Qwen3.7 Flash leads
Mistral Medium 3.5: 17.3 (#295), Qwen3.7 Flash: 28.2 (#108)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Qwen3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| NYT Connections (extended) | 12.9% | 43.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.35 | 144.64 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 41.4% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 23% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1436 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 15% |
Math Too close to call
Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.1 (#113), Qwen3.7 Flash: 38.3 (#140)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Qwen3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 19.3% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 86.7% |
| LMArena Math | 1431 | — |
Knowledge Qwen3.7 Flash leads
Mistral Medium 3.5: 40.0 (#126), Qwen3.7 Flash: 48.9 (#75)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Qwen3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 82.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1432 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Mistral Medium 3.5: 38.3 (#65), Qwen3.7 Flash: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Qwen3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1223 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral Medium 3.5: 51.9 (#100), Qwen3.7 Flash: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Qwen3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1404 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1442 | — |
| LMArena French | 1448 | — |
| LMArena German | 1451 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1385 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1395 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1409 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.6 (#90), Qwen3.7 Flash: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Qwen3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1415 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#103), Qwen3.7 Flash: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Qwen3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1415 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.5 (#117), Qwen3.7 Flash: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Qwen3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1421 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1374 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 993 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1423 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Medium 3.5 better than Qwen3.7 Flash?
Mistral Medium 3.5 and Qwen3.7 Flash score almost the same on the Noometry Index (40.2 vs 39.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium 3.5 or Qwen3.7 Flash?
Qwen3.7 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.03 per million input tokens and $0.13 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.5 lists at $1.50 and $7.50.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen3.7 Flash does, with 1M tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Medium 3.5 and Qwen3.7 Flash share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.7 Flash has 7.