Mistral Medium 3.5 is a dense 128B instruction-following model from Mistral AI. It supports text and image inputs with text output, and is designed for agentic workflows, coding, and complex...
Model details →Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Perplexity: Sonar Pro
Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 wins on 5 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Note: Sonar Pro pricing includes Perplexity search pricing. See [details here](https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/pricing#detailed-pricing-breakdown-for-sonar-reasoning-pro-and-sonar-pro) For enterprises seeking more advanced capabilities, t…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 | Perplexity: Sonar Pro | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 262K | 200K | 🏆 Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $1.50 | $3.00 | 🏆 Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $7.50 | $15.00 | 🏆 Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | — | 🏆 Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | Yes | — | 🏆 Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 better than Perplexity: Sonar Pro?
Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 wins on 5 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 and Perplexity: Sonar Pro?
Input: $1.50 vs $3.00 per 1M tokens. Output: $7.50 vs $15.00 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 and Perplexity: Sonar Pro support?
Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 supports up to 262K tokens. Perplexity: Sonar Pro supports up to 200K tokens.
Do both Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 and Perplexity: Sonar Pro support tool calling?
Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5: yes. Perplexity: Sonar Pro: not advertised.