Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Qwen3-235B-A22B
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
Mistral AI · Mar 2026
Europe's strongest model line: frontier-adjacent quality at $0.40/$2 with EU data residency and on-prem options.
Alibaba (Qwen) · Jul 2025
The most popular open general-purpose Qwen: 235B MoE with hybrid thinking, a staple of the 2025 open-source ecosystem.
The verdict
These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. Qwen3-235B-A22B is about 2.1x cheaper per blended million tokens (3:1 input:output mix). Qwen3-235B-A22B also takes 262K of context versus 131K for Mistral Medium 3.5. And Qwen3-235B-A22B is open-weights (Apache 2.0), so it can be self-hosted — a structural advantage if data control or vendor independence matters.
Specs & pricing
| Mistral Medium 3.5 | Qwen3-235B-A22B | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | 69.0 |
| Input price / 1M | $0.4 | $0.22 |
| Output price / 1M | $2 | $0.88 |
| Context window | 131K | 262K |
| Max output | — | 33K |
| Open weights | no | yes (Apache 2.0) |
| Reasoning model | no | yes |
| Multimodal input | text, image | text |
| Knowledge cutoff | Dec 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Released | Mar 2026 | Jul 2025 |
| Example monthly cost* | $7.00 | $3.52 |
* 10M input + 1.5M output tokens per month at list prices, no caching. Green = better value on that row.
Frequently asked questions
- Which is better, Mistral Medium 3.5 or Qwen3-235B-A22B?
- These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. Qwen3-235B-A22B is about 2.1x cheaper per blended million tokens (3:1 input:output mix). Qwen3-235B-A22B also takes 262K of context versus 131K for Mistral Medium 3.5. And Qwen3-235B-A22B is open-weights (Apache 2.0), so it can be self-hosted — a structural advantage if data control or vendor independence matters.
- Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium 3.5 or Qwen3-235B-A22B?
- Mistral Medium 3.5 costs $0.4/$2 per million input/output tokens, while Qwen3-235B-A22B costs $0.22/$0.88. For a typical workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month, that's $7.00 versus $3.52.
- Which model is better for coding, Mistral Medium 3.5 or Qwen3-235B-A22B?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.