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Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral

balanced

Capabilities

VisionToolsStructured OutputExtended ThinkingLong ContextCode

Strengths

  • Strong long-context support (262K tokens) for document summarisation
  • Excellent multimodal vision and image understanding
  • Instruction-following and agentic workflow capabilities
  • Cost-effective balanced pricing mid-range option

Weaknesses

  • Very slow inference speed (0.11 speed_score, ~164 tok/s)
  • Weak agentic reasoning and general intelligence benchmarks
  • Limited code generation performance relative to specialist models
  • Closed-source weights reduce customisation and privacy control

Pricing

Input / 1M tokens

$1.5

Output / 1M tokens

$7.5

Context window

262.144k

Transparency

Open weights

0.0 / 10

Open training data

0.0 / 10

Open methodology

0.0 / 10

Licence openness

4.0 / 10

Provider disclosure

5.0 / 10

FMTI company score

N/A

Composite:5.5 / 10

Mistral publishes model reports but does not open-source weights for Medium 3.5. Licensing terms are proprietary. Provider offers moderate transparency on capability benchmarks but limited disclosure on training data composition or infrastructure.

Sustainability

Inference energy

N/A

Training footprint

N/A

Provider infrastructure

5.5 / 10

Composite:5.0 / 10

No public commitments to renewable energy or carbon offsets. 128B parameter model incurs moderate inference costs. Provider sustainability practices are not widely documented.

Task Fitness

question answering
52%
code
60%
mathematics
85%
business communication
84%
vision
80%
analysis
61%
extraction
81%
long-form generation
78%
research
78%
reasoning
52%
summarisation
82%
translation
75%
conversation
84%