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Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct

Side-by-side API economics and benchmarks. Per-1M input and output rates, context window, and verified metrics.

Tale of the tape

Head-to-head specs pulled from each model profile.

Metric Mistral Medium 3.5 Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct
Input cost / 1M $1.50 $1.50
Output cost / 1M $7.50 $7.50
Context window 256,000 tokens 262,144 tokens
MMLU score

Cost verdict

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Mistral Medium 3.5

Input: 1M × $1.50 = $1.50
Output: 1M × $7.50 = $7.50
Total
$9.00

Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct

Input: 1M × $1.50 = $1.50
Output: 1M × $7.50 = $7.50
Total
$9.00

Total cost savings

$0.00

Same monthly cost for Mistral Medium 3.5 and Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct at this volume.

Model routing savings

Uses this page's verified rates. Mistral Medium 3.5 is the premium route (higher combined per-1M cost); Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct handles routine traffic.

Premium model

Mistral Medium 3.5

$1.50 in · $7.50 out / 1M

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Economical model

Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct

$1.50 in · $7.50 out / 1M

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All premium

Mistral Medium 3.5

$450.00

100% of input and output on the premium route

Routed stack

80%Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct

Mistral Medium 3.5

$450.00

Routine slice
$360.00
Premium slice
$90.00

Monthly savings

$0.00

0% lower

Rates pulled from this page's model database entries (mistral-medium-3-5, qwen3-coder-480b-a35b) — same per-1M input/output figures as Tale of the tape. Production routing needs quality gates and monitoring.

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