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Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Mistral Nemo

Mistral Medium 3.5 (Mistral AI) and Mistral Nemo (Mistral AI) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.

Snapshot as of 17 August 2026

As of 17 August 2026, Mistral Medium 3.5 holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#40 vs #227); Mistral Nemo is 250× cheaper per output token ($0.03/1M vs $7.50/1M); Mistral Medium 3.5 offers the longer context window (262K vs 131K tokens); and Mistral Nemo ships open weights.

Which should you choose?

Choose Mistral Medium 3.5 if…

  • you want the stronger overall ModelCap Index position — #40 against #227 (54.0 vs 0.0 points).
  • you need the longer context window — 262K tokens against 131K.
  • you want the more recently listed model — Mistral Medium 3.5 was listed 30 April 2026, Mistral Nemo 19 July 2024.

Choose Mistral Nemo if…

  • API cost matters — $0.03/1M output tokens against $7.50/1M, about 250× cheaper.
  • your workload is prompt-heavy — input tokens cost $0.019/1M against $1.50/1M.
  • you want to self-host: Mistral Nemo ships open weights while Mistral Medium 3.5 is api only.
  • you want provider choice — 4 listed API providers against 1.

Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Mistral Nemo: specs, pricing and context

Specification comparison of Mistral Medium 3.5 and Mistral Nemo
FieldMistral Medium 3.5Mistral AIMistral NemoMistral AI
ModelCap Index position#40#227
Index score54.00.0
EvidenceMeasuredEstimated
Input price / 1M tokens$1.50$0.019
Output price / 1M tokens$7.50$0.03
Context window262K tokens131K tokens
Max output tokens—16K
API providers listed14
Weight accessAPI onlyOpen weights
Input modalitiesText, Image, FileText
First listed30 April 202619 July 2024
PublisherMistral AIMistral AI

Evidence: 4 public benchmark observations across 4 boards · publisher corpus prior · leave-one-anchor-out calibrated. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.

Benchmark scores: Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Mistral Nemo

Public benchmark boards where Mistral Medium 3.5 or Mistral Nemo has a published result
BoardMistral Medium 3.5Mistral NemoLeads
Arena codingArena (LMArena)14791468–1490—Only one result
LMArena AgentLMArena-7.0%-9.0%–-5.0%—Only one result
Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexArtificial Analysis30.4intelligence-index—Only one result

Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.

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Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Mistral Nemo: common questions

Is Mistral Medium 3.5 better than Mistral Nemo?

Mistral Medium 3.5 ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 17 August 2026: #40 against #227. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it.

Is Mistral Medium 3.5 cheaper than Mistral Nemo?

Mistral Nemo is cheaper on output tokens: $0.03/1M against $7.50/1M. Input tokens are $1.50/1M for Mistral Medium 3.5 and $0.019/1M for Mistral Nemo. Prices are the lowest listed API offer ModelCap observed, in USD per million tokens.

Which has the bigger context window, Mistral Medium 3.5 or Mistral Nemo?

Mistral Medium 3.5 has the larger context window: 262K tokens against 131K.

Which is better for coding, Mistral Medium 3.5 or Mistral Nemo?

The two models do not share a coding benchmark board on ModelCap yet, so no head-to-head coding score is published; the ModelCap Index position is the closest overall signal.

Are Mistral Medium 3.5 and Mistral Nemo open-weight models?

Mistral Medium 3.5: API only. Mistral Nemo: Open weights. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.

Where can I run Mistral Medium 3.5 and Mistral Nemo?

ModelCap currently lists 1 API provider for Mistral Medium 3.5 and 4 for Mistral Nemo, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.

How current is this Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Mistral Nemo comparison?

Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 17 August 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.

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