Mistral Medium 3.5
By Mistral
Released: 2026-06-20
Mistral Medium 3.5 is Mistral's mid-tier model, scoring 30 on the Intelligence Index at $1.20 per measured task - a difficult position when Claude 4.5 Haiku matches its intelligence at a fifth of the cost. Pricing is $1.50/$7.50 per million tokens with a 262k context.
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262k tokens context
Specifications
AI Evaluation
European hosting and compliance remain the case for Mistral; the benchmarks don't. At Haiku-level intelligence and five times Haiku's task cost, this tier needs a price cut or a better model.
Pros
- EU-based provider and data residency
- Simple commercial terms
- 262k context
Cons
- Haiku-level intelligence at 5x the cost
- Worst value score (25) in our tracked field
- No agentic benchmark presence
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