Mistral Medium 3.1 vs Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max
Compare Mistral Medium 3.1 by Mistral AI against Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max by Qwen, context windows of 131K vs 1.0M, tested across 21 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max
Mistral Medium 3.1Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
Mistral Medium 3.1 is 3.0x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Mistral Medium 3.1
Input
$0.40
5.0× cheaper
Output
$2.00
3.0× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max
Input
$2.00
Output
$6.00
Mistral Medium 3.1 is cheaper on both — 5.0× input, 3.0× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
52%
Mistral Medium 3.1 uses 39.3x more emoji
Mistral Medium 3.1
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max
52%Vocabulary48%
22wSentence Length17w
0.45Hedging0.95
10.4Bold4.3
5.9Lists8.2
0.39Emoji0.00
1.12Headings1.92
0.18Transitions0.02
Based on 22 + 13 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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