Model comparison

Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Qwen3.8 Max

Qwen3.8 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.8 to 40.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 20 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral AI

40.2

Rank #152 Confirmed

Qwen3.8 Max

Alibaba (Qwen)

56.8

Rank #22 Confirmed

Summary

They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.8 Max in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.8 Max leads 54.4 to 17.3.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 12.9% for Mistral Medium 3.5 and 88.3% for Qwen3.8 Max.
Both cost about the same: $1.50 input and $7.50 output per million tokens.
Qwen3.8 Max 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 and Qwen3.8 Max specifications
	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.8 Max
Provider	Mistral AI	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	40.2	56.8
Released	—	2026-08-02
Weights	Open	Proprietary
Context window	262K	1M
Max output	210K	131K
Input $ / M tokens	$1.50	$2
Output $ / M tokens	$7.50	$6
Results tracked	22	39

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.8 Max leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.0 (#213), Qwen3.8 Max: 53.5 (#29)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.8 Max
LMArena WebDev	1264	1674
LMArena Coding	1461	1502
DeepSWE	—	57.5%
FrontierSWE	—	17.8%
SciCode	—	53.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.5: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 45.4 (#14)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.8 Max
APEX-Agents	—	63.3%
τ²-bench Banking	—	55.1%
GDP.pdf	—	23.2%

Reasoning Qwen3.8 Max leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 17.3 (#295), Qwen3.8 Max: 54.4 (#26)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.8 Max
NYT Connections (extended)	12.9%	88.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts	1436	1496
Epoch Capabilities Index	141.35	156.41
Kagi LLM Benchmark	41.4%	—
CritPt	—	20%
Chess Puzzles	—	40%
Mystery Game Puzzles	—	38%
DTBench	—	92%
LMCA	—	46.2%

Math Qwen3.8 Max leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.1 (#113), Qwen3.8 Max: 73.2 (#20)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.8 Max
LMArena Math	1431	1499
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)	—	74.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4	—	46.3%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	100%
ProofBench	—	58%

Knowledge Qwen3.8 Max leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 40.0 (#126), Qwen3.8 Max: 61.7 (#27)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.8 Max
LMArena Expert	1432	1507
GPQA Diamond	—	92.7%
SimpleQA Verified	—	47.3%

Multimodal Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 38.3 (#65), Qwen3.8 Max: 37.2 (#75)

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.8 Max
LMArena Vision	1223	1314
Furniture Assembly	—	20%

Multilingual Qwen3.8 Max leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 51.9 (#100), Qwen3.8 Max: 56.7 (#18)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.8 Max
LMArena Non-English	1404	1472
LMArena Chinese	1442	1538
LMArena French	1448	1503
LMArena German	1451	1483
LMArena Korean	1385	1461
LMArena Russian	1395	1481
LMArena Spanish	1409	1492
LMArena Japanese	—	1467

Instruction Following Qwen3.8 Max leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.6 (#90), Qwen3.8 Max: 77.6 (#17)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.8 Max
LMArena Instruction Following	1415	1479

Long Context Qwen3.8 Max leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#103), Qwen3.8 Max: 45.6 (#31)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.8 Max
LMArena Longer Query	1415	1489

Writing & Preference Qwen3.8 Max leads

Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.5 (#117), Qwen3.8 Max: 67.1 (#30)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.8 Max
LMArena Text	1421	1483
LMArena Creative Writing	1374	1479
LMArena Multi-Turn	1423	1489
EQ-Bench 4	993	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Medium 3.5 better than Qwen3.8 Max?

Qwen3.8 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.8 to 40.2 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium 3.5 or Qwen3.8 Max?

Qwen3.8 Max is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.5 lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

Is Mistral Medium 3.5 or Qwen3.8 Max better for coding?

Qwen3.8 Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 53.5 versus 36.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.8 Max does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Medium 3.5 and Qwen3.8 Max share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.8 Max has 39.