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Updated Apr 2026

Mistral Medium 3.1vsQwen3.6 Max Preview

Mistral Medium 3.1 is cheaper than Qwen3.6 Max Preview at $0.4/M vs $1.04/M input tokens.

Mistral Medium 3.1 and Qwen3.6 Max Preview compared across 49 shared prompts
SpecMistral Medium 3.1Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Input price$0.4/M tokens$1.04/M tokens
Output price$2/M tokens$6.24/M tokens
Context window131K tokens262K tokens
Weights—Closed
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedAug 2025Apr 2026
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Opening lines from 6 of the 49 prompts both answered. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Mini LBO Underwrite

You are underwriting a 5-year LBO for a private equity investment committee. Company (fictional): HarborTech Services (HTS) –…

Mistral Medium 3.1415 words
1. Year-by-Year Financial Projections (FY2026–FY2030) FY 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030 Revenue $972m (+8%) $1,039m (+7%) $1,099m (+6%) $1,154m (+5%) $1,212m (+5%) EBITDA $136m (14.0%) $156m (15.0%) $176m (16.0%) $190m (16.5%) $206m (17.0%) Cash Int (Term Loan) $43.2m $42.5m $41.8m $41.1m $40.4m Cash Int (Mezz) $21.6m $22.3m…
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Qwen3.6 Max Preview630 words
Entry & Capital Structure Math Entry EV = 12.0x × $120m EBITDA = $1,440.0m Transaction Fees = 2.0% × $1,440m = $28.8m (equity funded) Total Uses = $1,440.0m + $28.8m = $1,468.8m Debt Raised = 5.5x × $120m = $660.0m Term Loan: 4.0x = $480.0m (9.0% cash, 1.0% mandatory amort = $4.8m/yr) Mezzanine: 1.5x = $180.0m (12.0%…
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Character Voice Test

Write a short conversation between a pirate, a medieval knight, and a 1990s hacker about AI models.

Mistral Medium 3.1384 words
Title: The Tavern of Anachronisms Setting: A dimly lit tavern where time and space don’t quite make sense. A grizzled pirate, a stoic knight in dented armor, and a hacker in a neon "CYBERPUNK 2077" t-shirt sit around a table littered with tankards, a laptop, and a suspiciously glowing orb.
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Qwen3.6 Max Preview437 words
Hacker: Dude, it’s not magic. It’s a neural net. You shovel terabytes of text, images, code into it, and it learns patterns. Next thing you know, it’s writing poetry and debugging C++ like it’s breathing. Knight: Verily, thou speakest of a mechanical scribe. A golem forged not of clay, but of… numbers?
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Explain Like I'm a Specific Expert

Explain how a large language model (like GPT or Claude) learns and generates text to each of these three audiences: 1. **An experienced…

Mistral Medium 3.11,160 words
1. For the Skeptical Software Engineer (Focus: Systems design, scalability, and why "next-word prediction" isn’t as dumb as it sounds.) You’re right to be skeptical—if someone told you that a system as complex as a distributed database was just "predicting the next byte," you’d laugh them out of the room.
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Qwen3.6 Max Preview1,204 words
For the Experienced Software Engineer Think of an LLM not as a rules engine or a knowledge base, but as a massively parameterized, stateless function trained via distributed optimization. The learning objective is deceptively simple: minimize cross-entropy loss for next-token prediction across trillions of tokens.
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Generate a Stand-Up Routine

Write a 3-minute stand-up comedy routine that isn't based on puns.

Mistral Medium 3.1746 words
"Adulting: A User’s Manual (That No One Gave Me)" (Casual, conversational tone—like you’re telling a story to friends at a bar.) So, I turned 30 this year. Which, by the way, is just old enough to realize that no one actually knows what they’re doing. We’re all just winging it and hoping the Wi-Fi stays strong.
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Qwen3.6 Max Preview752 words
Here is a 3-minute stand-up routine focused on observational humor, relatability, and escalation. It contains zero puns. The humor relies on the shared frustration of modern digital security. Title: The Human Verification Test Estimated Time: 3 Minutes (approx.
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Stochastic Consistency Test

Generate 5 jokes. How many are unique?

Mistral Medium 3.1115 words
Here are five jokes for you: Why don’t skeletons fight each other? They don’t have the guts. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field! What do you call fake spaghetti? An impasta! Why can’t you trust an atom? Because they make up everything! Why did the math book look sad?
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Qwen3.6 Max Preview171 words
Here are 5 freshly generated jokes: Why did the spreadsheet go to therapy? It had too many unresolved cells. I asked my dog for financial advice. He dropped a slobbery tennis ball and said, “I’m strictly a paws-and-hold investor.” I tried to open a bakery that only sells bread shaped like furniture.
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Ethical Dilemma with Stakeholders

You're the CEO of a pharmaceutical company. Your best-selling drug ($2B annual revenue, used by 4 million patients for chronic pain) has…

Mistral Medium 3.11,619 words
This is a high-stakes, multi-dimensional crisis requiring decisive action to balance ethical obligations, legal risks, financial stability, and stakeholder trust. Below is a detailed 48-hour action plan, structured to address all critical priorities while preparing for the board meeting and earnings call.
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Qwen3.6 Max Preview1,596 words
CEO Crisis Action Plan: Next 48 Hours Guiding Principles: Patient safety first. Regulatory compliance is non-negotiable. Transparency protects long-term enterprise value. Delaying disclosure of a serious, unexpected adverse event increases legal, financial, and reputational risk exponentially.
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Our Verdict
Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Mistral Medium 3.1
Mistral Medium 3.1Runner-up

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Qwen3.6 Max Preview has the edge: bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.

Mistral Medium 3.1 costs 3.1x less per token.

Slight edge

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API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

Mistral Medium 3.1
Input
$0.40
2.6× cheaper
Output
$2.00
3.1× cheaper
Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Input
$1.04
Output
$6.24

Mistral Medium 3.1 is cheaper on both: 2.6× input, 3.1× output.

Where to run it

2 hosts

Mistral Medium 3.11 host
HostInOutContextUptime
Mistral$0.40 in·$2.00 out·131k·91.2% up
Qwen3.6 Max Preview1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
Alibaba Cloud$1.03 in·$6.16 out·262k·100% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 16 Sep 2026.

Writing DNA

Style Comparison

Similarity
51%

Mistral Medium 3.1 uses 8.3x more transitions

Mistral Medium 3.1
Qwen3.6 Max Preview
54%Vocabulary62%
21wSentence Length21w
0.43Hedging0.22
10.3Bold3.8
5.7Lists2.9
0.72Emoji1.88
1.03Headings0.62
0.14Transitions0.02
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