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Qwen3.5-122B-A10B vs Mistral Medium 3.1
Which is cheaper, which is more capable, and which does better at each kind of work, from 24 results on 4 sources that measured both models.
Of the 24 results both models have, the better value on each. Results whose reported ranges overlap are too close to call.
Results as of 13 October 2026 (catalogue release 2026-10-13-2e2420e3c5cc). See also Alibaba vs Mistral AI, every model from both labs.
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B or Mistral Medium 3.1? The short answer
Pick Qwen3.5-122B-A10B: it scores higher (Intelligence Index 17.7 against 9.2) at about the same price.
- They cost about the same: $0.72 and $0.80 per million tokens (three input to one output).
- Qwen3.5-122B-A10B scores higher on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index: 17.7 against 9.2.
- Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is newer: released 24 Feb 2026, against 12 Aug 2025 for Mistral Medium 3.1.
- On third-party benchmarks, on the results both models have: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B does better for agents and tool use, reasoning and knowledge, writing and sticking to the facts.
Head to head
Every fact side by side
| Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | Mistral Medium 3.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Price per million tokens | $0.26 in · $2.08 out | $0.40 in · $2.00 out |
| Blended (3 in : 1 out) | $0.72 | $0.80 |
| Cheapest host, blended | $0.72 (Alibaba) | $0.80 (Mistral) |
| Intelligence Index | 17.7 | 9.2 |
| Spring Prompt overall | – | – |
| Output speed, tokens a second | 147 | – |
| Context window | 262,144 tokens | 131,072 tokens |
| Released | 24 Feb 2026 (newer) | 12 Aug 2025 |
| Weights | Open | Closed |
| Developer based in | China | France |
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.
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.
| Measure | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Arena (formerly LMArena) reported by Arena (formerly LMArena) · 3 results | ||
| Overall · TextArena rating, higher is better 117 · 130 of 387 measured | 1,416 | 1,408 |
| Overall · Text factualityArena rating, higher is better 103 · 99 of 163 measured | 1,428 | 1,429 |
| Business, management and finance · TextArena rating, higher is better 105 · 129 of 380 measured | 1,422 | 1,407 |
| Artificial Analysis reported by Artificial Analysis · 3 results | ||
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score, higher is better 114 · 181 of 243 measured | 17.7no reasoning | 9.2 |
| GPQA Diamond% of questions, higher is better 75 · 184 of 231 measured | 85.7% | 58.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam% of questions, higher is better 92 · 196 of 242 measured | 25.2% | 4.7% |
| UGI Leaderboard reported by UGI Leaderboard · 3 results | ||
| Writing score · UGIscore out of 100, higher is better 112 · 114 of 230 measured | 39.5no reasoning | 39.5 |
| Requested-length error · UGI% off the requested word count, lower is better 33 · 156 of 230 measured | 9.0%thinking reasoning | 27.0% |
| Style adherence · UGIscore from 0 to 1, higher is better 83 · 24 of 230 measured | 0.36no reasoning | 0.39 |
| Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard reported by Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard · 2 results | ||
| Hallucination rate · Vectara% of summaries, lower is better 72 · 101 of 104 measured | 11.2% | 22.7% |
| Answer rate · Vectara% of documents, higher is better 31 · 41 of 104 measured | 99.8% | 99.7% |
Show all 24 results (13 more)
| Measure | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Arena (formerly LMArena) reported by Arena (formerly LMArena) · 4 results | ||
| Creative writing · TextArena rating, higher is better 136 · 123 of 385 measured | 1,366 | 1,378 |
| Expert prompts · TextArena rating, higher is better 111 · 143 of 338 measured | 1,442 | 1,410 |
| Instruction following · TextArena rating, higher is better 115 · 133 of 387 measured | 1,406 | 1,395 |
| Writing, literature and language · TextArena rating, higher is better 125 · 128 of 386 measured | 1,387 | 1,386 |
| Artificial Analysis reported by Artificial Analysis · 9 results | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.1% of tasks, higher is better 64 · 96 of 130 measured | 47.6% | 13.9% |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0% of tasks, higher is better 66 · 66 of 112 measured | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| τ-bench banking% of tasks, higher is better 58 · 86 of 121 measured | 15.3% | 8.2% |
| Artificial Analysis Coding Indexindex score, higher is better 65 · 102 of 131 measured | 45.7 | 20.5 |
| IFBench% of instructions, higher is better 22 · 135 of 195 measured | 75.7% | 39.8% |
| Long-context reasoning (AA-LCR)% of questions, higher is better 72 · 168 of 233 measured | 76.3% | 42.7% |
| SciCode% of problems, higher is better 79 · 96 of 113 measured | 39.7% | 32.4% |
| Terminal-Bench Hard% of tasks, higher is better 65 · 127 of 190 measured | 31.1% | 10.6% |
| τ²-bench telecom% of tasks, higher is better 30 · 116 of 193 measured | 93.6% | 40.6% |
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Quick answers
Is Qwen3.5-122B-A10B better than Mistral Medium 3.1?
Pick Qwen3.5-122B-A10B: it scores higher (Intelligence Index 17.7 against 9.2) at about the same price.
Which is cheaper, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B or Mistral Medium 3.1?
They cost about the same: $0.72 and $0.80 per million tokens (three input to one output).
Which is better for agents and tool use, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B or Mistral Medium 3.1?
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B ranks 95 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, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B or Mistral Medium 3.1?
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B ranks 87 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, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B or Mistral Medium 3.1?
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B ranks 102 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, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B or Mistral Medium 3.1?
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B ranks 108 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, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B or Mistral Medium 3.1?
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B: 262,144 tokens, against 131,072 for Mistral Medium 3.1.
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