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Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B

Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B wins on more metrics (8 of 8), but the right pick depends on what you optimize for — see the breakdown below.

MetricMistral: Mistral Medium 3.5Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Intelligence Index39.240.1
Coding Index35.437.4
GPQA Diamond75%86%
Design Arena Elo1242
Speed (tokens/sec)40176
Latency673ms631ms
Input price /M$1.50$0.390
Output price /M$7.50$2.34
Context window262K262K
CapabilitiesReasoningToolsJSONVisionReasoningToolsJSONVision