Mistral Medium 3.5: API pricing, context window and capabilities

Prices from official vendor price lists · October 2026

Mistral Medium 3.5 costs $1.5 per 1M input tokens and $7.5 per 1M output tokens, with a 256K context window. Frontier tier: dearer than 79% of this rating, with Devstral 2 as the nearest cheaper Mistral AI option. Recorded for vision, reasoning, free tier.

Capabilities
Text & chatVisionReasoning
API $/1M (in / out)
$1.5 / $7.5
Context window
256K tokens
Price / mo
API only

Mistral Medium 3.5 is an AI model from Mistral AI, priced at $1.5 input and $7.5 output per 1M tokens. That places it in the frontier tier of this rating — dearer than 79% of the 205 priced models listed.

It holds 256K tokens in a single conversation. Capabilities recorded in this rating: text & chat, vision, reasoning, tool calling, structured JSON output. Access is through the API rather than a consumer subscription.

API price$1.5 / $7.5per 1M tokens, in / out
Context256K tokenstokens per conversation
VendorMistral AIall models from this vendor
TierFrontierdearer than 79% of models

Cost calculator

Standard$6.00AED 22 per month
With batch −50%$3.00AED 11 per month
With caching on input$5.66AED 21 per month
Standard$60.00AED 220 per month
With batch −50%$30.00AED 110 per month
With caching on input$56.63AED 208 per month
Standard$300AED 1,102 per month
With batch −50%$150AED 551 per month
With caching on input$283AED 1,040 per month
Standard$1,200AED 4,407 per month
With batch −50%$600AED 2,204 per month
With caching on input$1,133AED 4,159 per month

Assumes a 1:3 input-to-output ratio, which is typical for chat and generation. Dirham figures use 3.6725 per dollar. Batch and caching discounts apply where the vendor offers them.

Compared with alternatives

How Mistral Medium 3.5 sits against its neighbours in this rating. Tap a card to open that model.

Good and poor fit

Good fit
  • Multi-step analysis, planning and code review, where the first plausible answer is often wrong.
  • Reading screenshots, charts, scanned documents and photos.
Poor fit
  • Classification, routing and short summaries — a small model does these identically for a fraction of the price.

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Frequently asked questions

How much does Mistral Medium 3.5 cost?

$1.5 / $7.5 per 1M tokens, input and output. In dirhams that is roughly AED 5.51 per 1M input tokens. Batch processing halves it where the vendor offers it.

What is the context window of Mistral Medium 3.5?

256K tokens in a single conversation.

What can Mistral Medium 3.5 do?

In this rating it is recorded with: text & chat, vision, reasoning, tool calling, structured JSON output, prompt caching, batch API, free tier, multilingual, proprietary API.

Is Mistral Medium 3.5 a good choice?

It depends on the job. See the good-fit and poor-fit lists above, and compare against the neighbouring models before committing.

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