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Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Qwen3.8 Max

Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral AI
Qwen3.8 MaxAlibaba (Qwen)
Our take

Qwen3.8 Max wins 4 of 4 categories.

Overall1866Best
Coding1975Best
Writing3575Best
Support4072Best
Value958Best
Input / 1M$1.50Best$2.00
Output / 1M$7.50$6.00Best
Blended / 1M$3.00$3.00
Context window262K1MBest
Open weightsYesNo
Released29 Apr 20263 Aug 2026

Your monthly bill

50k
Mistral Medium 3.5$600Cheapest
Qwen3.8 Max$600Cheapest
List prices, a quarter of the tokens as output. Scores are provisional, from Arena and Epoch AI.