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Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Voxtral Small 24B 2507

Mistral Medium 3.5 (Mistral AI) and Voxtral Small 24B 2507 (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 #228); Voxtral Small 24B 2507 is 25× cheaper per output token ($0.30/1M vs $7.50/1M); Mistral Medium 3.5 offers the longer context window (262K vs 32K tokens); and Voxtral Small 24B 2507 ships open weights.

Which should you choose?

Choose Mistral Medium 3.5 if…

  • you want the stronger overall ModelCap Index position — #40 against #228 (54.0 vs 0.0 points).
  • you need the longer context window — 262K tokens against 32K.
  • you want the more recently listed model — Mistral Medium 3.5 was listed 30 April 2026, Voxtral Small 24B 2507 30 October 2025.

Choose Voxtral Small 24B 2507 if…

  • API cost matters — $0.30/1M output tokens against $7.50/1M, about 25× cheaper.
  • your workload is prompt-heavy — input tokens cost $0.10/1M against $1.50/1M.
  • you want to self-host: Voxtral Small 24B 2507 ships open weights while Mistral Medium 3.5 is api only.

Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Voxtral Small 24B 2507: specs, pricing and context

Specification comparison of Mistral Medium 3.5 and Voxtral Small 24B 2507
FieldMistral Medium 3.5Mistral AIVoxtral Small 24B 2507Mistral AI
ModelCap Index position#40#228
Index score54.00.0
EvidenceMeasuredEstimated
Input price / 1M tokens$1.50$0.10
Output price / 1M tokens$7.50$0.30
Context window262K tokens32K tokens
Max output tokens——
API providers listed11
Weight accessAPI onlyOpen weights
Input modalitiesText, Image, FileText, Audio, File
First listed30 April 202630 October 2025
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 Voxtral Small 24B 2507

Public benchmark boards where Mistral Medium 3.5 or Voxtral Small 24B 2507 has a published result
BoardMistral Medium 3.5Voxtral Small 24B 2507Leads
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 Voxtral Small 24B 2507: common questions

Is Mistral Medium 3.5 better than Voxtral Small 24B 2507?

Mistral Medium 3.5 ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 17 August 2026: #40 against #228. 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 Voxtral Small 24B 2507?

Voxtral Small 24B 2507 is cheaper on output tokens: $0.30/1M against $7.50/1M. Input tokens are $1.50/1M for Mistral Medium 3.5 and $0.10/1M for Voxtral Small 24B 2507. 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 Voxtral Small 24B 2507?

Mistral Medium 3.5 has the larger context window: 262K tokens against 32K.

Which is better for coding, Mistral Medium 3.5 or Voxtral Small 24B 2507?

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 Voxtral Small 24B 2507 open-weight models?

Mistral Medium 3.5: API only. Voxtral Small 24B 2507: 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 Voxtral Small 24B 2507?

ModelCap currently lists 1 API provider for Mistral Medium 3.5 and 1 for Voxtral Small 24B 2507, 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 Voxtral Small 24B 2507 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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