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Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Ornith 1.5 9B

Mistral Medium 3.5 (Mistral AI) and Ornith 1.5 9B (Ornith 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 13 September 2026

As of 13 September 2026, Ornith 1.5 9B holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#58 vs #60); and Ornith 1.5 9B ships open weights.

Which should you choose?

Choose Mistral Medium 3.5 if…

  • you want provider choice — 1 listed API providers against 0.

Choose Ornith 1.5 9B if…

  • you want the stronger overall ModelCap Index position — #58 against #60 (57.4 vs 55.6 points).
  • you want to self-host: Ornith 1.5 9B ships open weights while Mistral Medium 3.5 is api only.
  • you want the more recently listed model — Ornith 1.5 9B was listed 18 August 2026, Mistral Medium 3.5 30 April 2026.

Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Ornith 1.5 9B: specs, pricing and context

Specification comparison of Mistral Medium 3.5 and Ornith 1.5 9B
FieldMistral Medium 3.5Mistral AIOrnith 1.5 9BOrnith Ai
ModelCap Index position#60#58
Index score55.657.4
EvidenceMeasuredEstimated
Input price / 1M tokens$1.50Unlisted
Output price / 1M tokens$7.50Unlisted
Context window262K tokens— tokens
Max output tokens210K—
API providers listed10
Weight accessAPI onlyOpen weights
Input modalitiesText, Image, FileText
First listed30 April 202618 August 2026
PublisherMistral AIOrnith Ai

Evidence: 4 public benchmark observations across 4 boards · global-corpus-prior over 186 held-out anchors (47%); launch card against 2 resolved peers on 10 rows (53%); exceeds every named peer on 3 of 10 rows; optimism haircut 0 from cross-lab-probe; shrunk 4.5 toward the measured corpus. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.

Benchmark scores: Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Ornith 1.5 9B

Public benchmark boards where Mistral Medium 3.5 or Ornith 1.5 9B has a published result
BoardMistral Medium 3.5Ornith 1.5 9BLeads
Arena codingArena (LMArena)14791467–1490—Only one result
LMArena AgentLMArena-10.1%-11.6%–-8.6%—Only one result
AA Intelligence IndexArtificial Analysis14.9intelligence-index:v4.3:reasoning-unspecified—Only one result
AA Terminal-Bench 2.1Artificial Analysis50.6%terminal-bench:2.1:terminus-2:e2b:pass-at-1:3-repeats:source-model="Mistral Medium 3.5":reasoning=true—Only one result
AA τ²-Bench TelecomArtificial Analysis94.2%tau2:telecom:dual-control:pass-at-1:3-repeats:source-model="Mistral Medium 3.5":reasoning=true—Only one result
AA Humanity's Last ExamArtificial Analysis13.8%hle:may-2025:text-only-2158:no-tools:pass-at-1:source-model="Mistral Medium 3.5":reasoning=true—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 Ornith 1.5 9B: common questions

Is Mistral Medium 3.5 better than Ornith 1.5 9B?

Ornith 1.5 9B ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 13 September 2026: #58 against #60. 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. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.

Is Mistral Medium 3.5 cheaper than Ornith 1.5 9B?

At least one of the two has no listed API price on ModelCap right now, so no price comparison is made.

Which has the bigger context window, Mistral Medium 3.5 or Ornith 1.5 9B?

Both publish a 262K-token context window.

Which is better for coding, Mistral Medium 3.5 or Ornith 1.5 9B?

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 Ornith 1.5 9B open-weight models?

Mistral Medium 3.5: API only. Ornith 1.5 9B: 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 Ornith 1.5 9B?

ModelCap currently lists 1 API provider for Mistral Medium 3.5 and 0 for Ornith 1.5 9B, 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 Ornith 1.5 9B comparison?

Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 13 September 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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