Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Qwen3.7 Max

Which is better for the money: Mistral Medium 3.5 by Mistral or Qwen3.7 Max by Alibaba? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-25.

Trade-off

MistralMistral Medium 3.5Off the frontier

Intelligence: 14.20
Total cost: $1264

AlibabaQwen3.7 MaxOff the frontier

Intelligence: 29.50
Total cost: $2277

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Qwen3.7 Max scores 15.3 points higher (29.5 vs 14.2) but costs 1.8× as much to run the benchmark ($2277 vs $1264; flagship vs premium cost classes). Pick Qwen3.7 Max when the extra intelligence is worth the premium, otherwise Mistral Medium 3.5.

Metric	Mistral Medium 3.5	Qwen3.7 Max	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	14.2	29.5	+107.7% Qwen3.7 Max is 2.1× more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$1,263.80	$2,277.12	+80.2% Qwen3.7 Max is 80.2% more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	17.85s	16.67s	−6.6% Qwen3.7 Max is 6.6% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$1.50 / $7.50	$2.50 / $7.50
Input modalities	Text, Image	Text

Qwen3.7 Max vs Mistral Medium 3.5: 107.7% more intelligence, 80.2% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 6.6% faster end-to-end.

Open this matchup in the interactive picker Mistral Medium 3.5: what beats it Qwen3.7 Max: what beats it

Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Mistral Medium 3.5 is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) scores 51.80 for $1082.
Qwen3.7 Max is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) scores 53.60 for $2172.

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