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Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 vs Mistral Medium 3.1

Which is cheaper, which is more capable, and which does better at each kind of work, from 17 results on 3 sources that measured both models.

AlibabaQwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 Released 21 Jul 2025 · $0.15 in · $0.75 out
Mistral AIMistral Medium 3.1 Released 12 Aug 2025 · $0.40 in · $2.00 out
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 wins 122 too close to callMistral Medium 3.1 wins 3

Of the 17 results both models have, the better value on each. Results whose reported ranges overlap are too close to call.

Results as of 9 October 2026 (catalogue release 2026-10-09-dd620e778ac5). See also Alibaba vs Mistral AI, every model from both labs.

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 or Mistral Medium 3.1? The short answer

Pick Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507: it scores higher (Intelligence Index 12.0 against 9.2) and costs less.

  • Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 is cheaper: $0.30 against $0.80 per million tokens, 2.7 times less.
  • Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 scores higher on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index: 12.0 against 9.2.
  • Mistral Medium 3.1 is newer: released 12 Aug 2025, against 21 Jul 2025 for Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507.
  • On third-party benchmarks, on the results both models have: Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 does better for reasoning and knowledge and writing.

Head to head

12.0
Intelligence Index
9.2
$0.30
Price per million tokens, blendedlower is better
$0.80
262,144
Context window, tokens
131,072

Every fact side by side

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507Mistral Medium 3.1
Price per million tokens$0.15 in · $0.75 out$0.40 in · $2.00 out
Blended (3 in : 1 out)$0.30$0.80
Cheapest host, blended$0.15 (GMICloud, FP8)$0.80 (Mistral)
Intelligence Index12.09.2
Spring Prompt overall––
Output speed, tokens a second––
Context window262,144 tokens131,072 tokens
Released21 Jul 202512 Aug 2025 (newer)
WeightsOpenClosed
Developer based inChinaFrance

Prices are the developer's list price where we have read it, otherwise the typical host on OpenRouter; see every model's price. Intelligence and speed from Artificial Analysis.

Which is better for what

Each model's rank among the models on sale today, for each kind of work, from our own benchmarks and licensed sources. Further right is better; the better rank is in green.

Agents and tool useMulti-step tasks with tools: support desks, coding agents, function calls 51 of 164 124 of 164
Reasoning and knowledgeHard questions across science, maths and general knowledge 129 of 198 160 of 198
WritingWhat people prefer in blind comparisons, and judged writing quality 85 of 188 112 of 188
Sticking to the factsSummarising without inventing things, and factual answers 98 of 152 130 of 152

Every shared result

Each model's best result on every measure both have, grouped by benchmark, with the setting that produced it. Under each measure, every model that benchmark has measured is a grey tick, best to the right, so you can see where the two sit in the field. The headline measures of each benchmark come first; the rest are under "Show all". Green marks the better value; where a source reports ranges that overlap, neither is marked.

MeasureQwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507Mistral Medium 3.1
Arena (formerly LMArena) reported by Arena (formerly LMArena) · 3 results
Overall · TextArena rating, higher is better 109 · 130 of 387 measured 1,422 1,408
Overall · Text factualityArena rating, higher is better 94 · 99 of 163 measured 1,431 1,429
Business, management and finance · TextArena rating, higher is better 97 · 129 of 380 measured 1,432 1,407
Artificial Analysis reported by Artificial Analysis · 3 results
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score, higher is better 153 · 181 of 243 measured 12.0 9.2
GPQA Diamond% of questions, higher is better 136 · 184 of 231 measured 75.3% 58.8%
Humanity's Last Exam% of questions, higher is better 144 · 196 of 242 measured 11.1% 4.7%
UGI Leaderboard reported by UGI Leaderboard · 3 results
Writing score · UGIscore out of 100, higher is better 80 · 114 of 230 measured 49.0 39.5
Requested-length error · UGI% off the requested word count, lower is better 69 · 156 of 230 measured 15.0% 27.0%
Style adherence · UGIscore from 0 to 1, higher is better 64 · 24 of 230 measured 0.36 0.39
Show all 17 results (8 more)
MeasureQwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507Mistral Medium 3.1
Arena (formerly LMArena) reported by Arena (formerly LMArena) · 4 results
Creative writing · TextArena rating, higher is better 122 · 123 of 385 measured 1,378 1,378
Expert prompts · TextArena rating, higher is better 103 · 143 of 338 measured 1,447 1,410
Instruction following · TextArena rating, higher is better 104 · 133 of 387 measured 1,414 1,395
Writing, literature and language · TextArena rating, higher is better 115 · 128 of 386 measured 1,396 1,386
Artificial Analysis reported by Artificial Analysis · 4 results
IFBench% of instructions, higher is better 113 · 135 of 195 measured 46.1% 39.8%
Long-context reasoning (AA-LCR)% of questions, higher is better 177 · 168 of 233 measured 33.9% 42.7%
Terminal-Bench Hard% of tasks, higher is better 110 · 127 of 190 measured 15.2% 10.6%
τ²-bench telecom% of tasks, higher is better 127 · 116 of 193 measured 33.3% 40.6%

Quick answers

Is Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 better than Mistral Medium 3.1?

Pick Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507: it scores higher (Intelligence Index 12.0 against 9.2) and costs less.

Which is cheaper, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 or Mistral Medium 3.1?

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 is cheaper: $0.30 against $0.80 per million tokens, 2.7 times less.

Which is better for agents and tool use, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 or Mistral Medium 3.1?

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 ranks 51 of 164 models on sale for multi-step tasks with tools: support desks, coding agents, function calls, against 124 for Mistral Medium 3.1.

Which is better for reasoning and knowledge, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 or Mistral Medium 3.1?

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 ranks 129 of 198 models on sale for hard questions across science, maths and general knowledge, against 160 for Mistral Medium 3.1.

Which is better for writing, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 or Mistral Medium 3.1?

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 ranks 85 of 188 models on sale for what people prefer in blind comparisons, and judged writing quality, against 112 for Mistral Medium 3.1.

Which is better for sticking to the facts, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 or Mistral Medium 3.1?

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 ranks 98 of 152 models on sale for summarising without inventing things, and factual answers, against 130 for Mistral Medium 3.1.

Which has the bigger context window, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 or Mistral Medium 3.1?

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507: 262,144 tokens, against 131,072 for Mistral Medium 3.1.

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