# Mistral Medium 3.5 128B vs Qwen3.5 397B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Mistral Medium 3.5 128B and Qwen3.5 397B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/mistral-medium-3-5-128b-vs-qwen3-5-397b
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 3
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Mistral Medium 3.5 128B and Qwen3.5 397B share only 3 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 3 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Qwen3.5 397B has the lower published output-token price.
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B has the larger published context window at 256K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Qwen3.5 397B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Mistral | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 128K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 30.13 | 54.7 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 7 | 38 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.50 / $7.50 | $0.60 / $3.60 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 21.9 (Supported · #150/152)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 46.8 (Estimated · #71/152)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| τ³-bench results | 91.4% | 68.4% | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B |
| Gert Labs | 39.10% | 46.76% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 39.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 52.5% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 62% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 56.8% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 51.8% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 43.7% | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | Coming soon | 37.6% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 36.3% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 46.1% | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | Coming soon | 74.2% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 74.0% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 14.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 36.9 (Estimated · #127/151)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 50.2 (Estimated · #59/151)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.6% | 76.2% | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 66.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 83.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 50.9% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 55.6 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 63 (#27/48)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 79% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 88.6% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 80.8% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 65.6% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 95.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 68.6 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 59.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 63.2% | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | Coming soon | 68.7% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 39 (Supported · #140/183)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 50.2 (Estimated · #77/183)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 34.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 75.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 88.4% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 70.4% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 87.8% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 94.9% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 93% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 28.7% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 84 (#48/123)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 0 (#123/123)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 92.6% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 69.7 (#5/12)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 59.1% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 74.2 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 93.3% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 94.8% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | Coming soon | 92.7% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 87.9% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 80.9% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Mistral Medium 3.5 128B and Qwen3.5 397B?

Not yet. The models share only 3 sourced benchmark rows, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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