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Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

Mistral Medium 3.5 (Mistral AI) and Qwen3.5-122B-A10B (Qwen) 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 #41); Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is 3.1× cheaper per output token ($2.40/1M vs $7.50/1M); and Qwen3.5-122B-A10B ships open weights.

Which should you choose?

Choose Mistral Medium 3.5 if…

  • you want the stronger overall ModelCap Index position — #40 against #41 (54.0 vs 53.6 points).
  • Arena coding is your yardstick — 1479 against 1459.
  • you want the more recently listed model — Mistral Medium 3.5 was listed 30 April 2026, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B 25 February 2026.

Choose Qwen3.5-122B-A10B if…

  • API cost matters — $2.40/1M output tokens against $7.50/1M, about 3.1× cheaper.
  • your workload is prompt-heavy — input tokens cost $0.29/1M against $1.50/1M.
  • you want to self-host: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B ships open weights while Mistral Medium 3.5 is api only.
  • you want provider choice — 5 listed API providers against 1.
  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index is your yardstick — 32.8 against 30.4.

Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Qwen3.5-122B-A10B: specs, pricing and context

Specification comparison of Mistral Medium 3.5 and Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
FieldMistral Medium 3.5Mistral AIQwen3.5-122B-A10BQwen
ModelCap Index position#40#41
Index score54.053.6
EvidenceMeasuredMeasured
Input price / 1M tokens$1.50$0.29
Output price / 1M tokens$7.50$2.40
Context window262K tokens262K tokens
Max output tokens—82K
API providers listed15
Weight accessAPI onlyOpen weights
Input modalitiesText, Image, FileText, Image, Video
First listed30 April 202625 February 2026
PublisherMistral AIQwen

Evidence: 4 public benchmark observations across 4 boards · 3 public benchmark observations across 3 boards. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.

Benchmark scores: Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

Public benchmark boards where Mistral Medium 3.5 or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has a published result
BoardMistral Medium 3.5Qwen3.5-122B-A10BLeads
Arena codingArena (LMArena)14791468–149014591452–1466Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena AgentLMArena-7.0%-9.0%–-5.0%—Only one result
Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexArtificial Analysis30.4intelligence-index32.8intelligence-indexQwen3.5-122B-A10B

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 Qwen3.5-122B-A10B: common questions

Is Mistral Medium 3.5 better than Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Mistral Medium 3.5 ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 17 August 2026: #40 against #41. 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 Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is cheaper on output tokens: $2.40/1M against $7.50/1M. Input tokens are $1.50/1M for Mistral Medium 3.5 and $0.29/1M for Qwen3.5-122B-A10B. 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 Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Both publish a 262K-token context window.

Which is better for coding, Mistral Medium 3.5 or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Arena coding: Mistral Medium 3.5 1479, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B 1459 — Mistral Medium 3.5 leads.

Are Mistral Medium 3.5 and Qwen3.5-122B-A10B open-weight models?

Mistral Medium 3.5: API only. Qwen3.5-122B-A10B: 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 Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

ModelCap currently lists 1 API provider for Mistral Medium 3.5 and 5 for Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, 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 Qwen3.5-122B-A10B 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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