# Mistral Medium 3.5 128B vs Qwen3.8 Max

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Mistral Medium 3.5 128B and Qwen3.8 Max across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/mistral-medium-3-5-128b-vs-qwen3-8-max
- Last updated: September 17, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.8 Max if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mistral Medium 3.5 128B only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Qwen3.8 Max leads overall 71.76 to 42.49.
- The clearest category separation is in agentic, where the averages are 22 for Mistral Medium 3.5 128B and 67.3 for Qwen3.8 Max.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond (Vals) in Knowledge, with scores of 34.8% and 93.7%.
- Qwen3.8 Max is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Qwen3.8 Max also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Qwen3.8 Max |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Mistral | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 1M |
| Overall Score | 42.49 | 71.76 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 7 | 60 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.50 / $7.50 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Qwen3.8 Max
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 22 (Supported · #151/153)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 67.3 (Supported · #9/153)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| τ³-bench results | 91.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 39.10% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 39.0% | 67.4% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| CoWorkBench | Coming soon | 74.8% | Coming soon |
| JobBench | Coming soon | 53.4% | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | Coming soon | 70.2% | Coming soon |
| Agents' Last Exam | Coming soon | 52.4% | Coming soon |
| AutomationBench | Coming soon | 27.3% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | Coming soon | 72.5% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 81.9% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 56.2% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 86.1% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | Coming soon | 19.4% | Coming soon |
| WebArena-Verified | Coming soon | 66.8% | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | Coming soon | 85.3% | Coming soon |
| MobileWorld | Coming soon | 77.8% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 39.2 (Estimated · #121/152)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 60.8 (Supported · #20/152)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 66.4% | 85.6% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 67.7% | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 56.6% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 55.9% | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE | Coming soon | 73.5% | Coming soon |
| MLS-Bench Lite | Coming soon | 41.0% | Coming soon |
| PaperBench | Coming soon | 93.0% | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | Coming soon | 81.2% | Coming soon |
| OpenHarmony Bench | Coming soon | 60.8% | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | Coming soon | 15.8% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 87.9% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 55.6 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 87.4 (#5/48)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 82.3% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 95.2% | Coming soon |
| MathVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 97.7% | Coming soon |
| BabyVision | Coming soon | 82.0% | Coming soon |
| BabyVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 91.3% | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | Coming soon | 24.0% | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench w/ Python | Coming soon | 49.0% | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 84.5% | Coming soon |
| Vision2Web | Coming soon | 69.0% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | Coming soon | 88.4% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 93.5% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 92.1% | Coming soon |
| OCRBench V2 | Coming soon | 74.2% | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | Coming soon | 79.6% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 88.0% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 77.8% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 75.0% | Coming soon |
| PerceptionBench | Coming soon | 63.5% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | Coming soon | 90.4% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 88.7% | Coming soon |
| MMVU | Coming soon | 82.4% | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | Coming soon | 90.8% | Coming soon |
| LVBench | Coming soon | 81.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 68.6 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 86.5 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 92.9% | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 66.3% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Qwen3.8 Max
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 40.5 (Supported · #132/183)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 68.8 (Supported · #17/183)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 34.8% | 93.7% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 75.3% | 88.6% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 92.6% | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 92.6% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 43.6% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 43.6% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B public-lane score: 84 (#48/123)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 90.7 (#18/123)

| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 82.8% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Mistral Medium 3.5 128B or Qwen3.8 Max?

Qwen3.8 Max is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Mistral Medium 3.5 128B and Qwen3.8 Max?

The widest category gap is in agentic, where the averages are 22 for Mistral Medium 3.5 128B and 67.3 for Qwen3.8 Max.

### How many benchmarks does Mistral Medium 3.5 128B cover on BenchLM?

Mistral Medium 3.5 128B currently has 7 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.8 Max cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.8 Max currently has 60 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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