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Mistral Medium 3.5

Name: Mistral Medium 3.5
Brand: Mistral AI
Price: 1.5000 USD

#29 of 31 text models on overall (provisional). $5.25 per 1,000 support replies at list price.

List price, not verified yet

key_facts.txt

Released: 29 Apr 2026
Context window: 262K tokens
Longest reply: 262K tokens
Open weights: Yes
Reasoning mode: Yes
Tool use: Yes
Reads: text, image, pdf
Writes: text
Knowledge cutoff: –

scores.txt

Overall18

Writing35

Support40

Coding19

Value9

Provisional, 0 to 100 among the text models we track, from Arena and Epoch AI. How we score.

Prices and where to run it

Provider	Region	Input per 1M	Output per 1M	Cached input	Data retention	Checked
mistral	global	$1.50	$7.50	$0.15	Not checked	List price, unverified

Price history and a CSV download arrive with the open price dataset.

Benchmarks behind the scores

Measure	Figure	Run date	Source
Epoch Capabilities Index	141.4	25 Oct 2026	Epoch AI
Arena text, coding	1460.5	22 Oct 2026	Arena
Arena text, creative writing	1373.9	22 Oct 2026	Arena
Arena text, instruction following	1414.7	22 Oct 2026	Arena
Arena text, multi-turn	1423.3	22 Oct 2026	Arena
Arena text, overall	1420.8	22 Oct 2026	Arena
Arena WebDev	1264.2	23 Oct 2026	Arena

call_it.sh

Call it through OpenRouter

curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "mistral/mistral-medium-3.5", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]}'

Not listed on OpenRouter; use the vendor’s own API.

next.txt

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