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 Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B
Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B is an open-weight sparse mixture-of-experts model from Qwen and the open-weight variant of [Qwen3.8 Max](/qwen/qwen3.8-max), with 95 billion active parameters out of 2.4 trillion total. It is...
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 | Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 262K | 262K | Tie |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $1.50 | $2.00 | 🏆 Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $7.50 | $6.00 | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | Yes | — | 🏆 Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 better than Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B?
Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 wins on 2 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 Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B?
Input: $1.50 vs $2.00 per 1M tokens. Output: $7.50 vs $6.00 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 and Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B support?
Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 supports up to 262K tokens. Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B supports up to 262K tokens.
Do both Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 and Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B support tool calling?
Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5: yes. Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: yes.