Mistral Medium 3.1 vs Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20
Compare Mistral Medium 3.1 by Mistral AI against Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 by Qwen, context windows of 131K vs 1.0M, tested across 52 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20
Mistral Medium 3.1Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Mistral Medium 3.1
Input
$0.40
Output
$2.00
1.2× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20
Input
$0.40
Output
$2.40
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
47%
Mistral Medium 3.1 uses 4.9x more transitions
Mistral Medium 3.1
Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20
52%Vocabulary59%
22wSentence Length15w
0.45Hedging0.28
10.4Bold4.4
5.9Lists2.5
0.39Emoji1.53
1.12Headings0.76
0.18Transitions0.04
Based on 22 + 27 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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