Mistral Medium 3.5vsQwen3.6
Mistral Medium 3.5 | Qwen3.6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | 128B | 35B |
Context window | 256k | 256k |
| Benchmarks | ||
Agentic coding SWE-Bench ProCan the AI fix real bugs in real software? It's handed actual problems from open-source projects and has to write code that genuinely solves them. Higher is better. | — | 49.5% |
Coding SWE-Bench VerifiedReal coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | 77.6%Best | 73.4% |
Multilingual coding SWE-Bench MultilingualLike SWE-Bench, but the coding problems span many programming languages, not just one. Tests how broadly the AI can code. Higher is better. | — | 67.2% |
Agentic terminal coding Terminal-Bench 2.0Can the AI work in a command-line terminal — running commands and finishing technical setup tasks the way a developer would? (Version 2.0 of the test.) Higher is better. | — | 51.5% |
Multidisciplinary reasoning Humanity's Last Exam · no toolsHumanity's Last Exam — extremely hard expert questions across many subjects, written so you can't just look up the answer. “No tools” means the AI answers on its own. Higher is better. | — | 21.4% |
Science GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | — | 86% |
Chart reasoning CharXiv ReasoningCan the AI read and reason about complex charts and figures, not just text? Higher is better. | — | 78% |
Multimodal reasoning MMMU-ProA tougher version of MMMU — college-level questions that mix images, diagrams, and text together. Higher is better. | — | 75.3% |
Multimodal MMMUTests the AI on understanding images and text together across many college subjects. Higher is better. | — | 81.7% |
Community preference (code) Arena Elo (Code)Like the text arena, but people vote on which AI writes better code. The votes become a chess-style Elo rating on arena.ai. Higher is better. | 1267 | — |
| Overview | ||
| Company | Mistral | Qwen |
| Release date | Apr 29 2026 | Apr 16 2026 |
| Access | Open Weight | Open Weight |
Which is better: Mistral Medium 3.5 or Qwen3.6?
Mistral Medium 3.5 leads Qwen3.6 on 1 of the 1 benchmark they both report (SWE-Bench Verified). Qwen3.6 shipped 13 days before Mistral Medium 3.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Mistral Medium 3.5 has 128B parameters, while Qwen3.6 has 35B. Context windows are 256k (Mistral Medium 3.5) vs 256k (Qwen3.6).
On SWE-Bench Verified, Mistral Medium 3.5 leads at 77.6% vs Qwen3.6 at 73.4%.
Frequently asked questions
Mistral Medium 3.5 was released by Mistral on Apr 29 2026.
Qwen3.6 was released by Qwen on Apr 16 2026.
Mistral Medium 3.5 leads on SWE-Bench Verified — Mistral Medium 3.5 77.6% vs Qwen3.6 73.4%.
Mistral Medium 3.5 has a 256k context window; Qwen3.6 has 256k.
Other comparisons
Mistral Medium 3.5vsClaude Opus 5Qwen3.6vsClaude Opus 5Mistral Medium 3.5vsGPT-5.6 SolQwen3.6vsGPT-5.6 SolMistral Medium 3.5vsGemini 3.6 FlashQwen3.6vsGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Medium 3.5vsMuse Spark 1.1Qwen3.6vsMuse Spark 1.1Mistral Medium 3.5vsGrok 4.5Qwen3.6vsGrok 4.5Mistral Medium 3.5vsDeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731Qwen3.6vsDeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731