Mistral Medium
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
4warn against
Nov 4, 2025first mention
Oct 6, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Gemini 3.5 Flash and Mistral Medium 3.5 being significantly better at real-time decision making”
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“I use mistral-medium-3.1 for a lot of random daily tasks”
“if price, speed, and reliability are a concern for your use cases I cannot recommend Mistral enough.”
switched from GPT-5on “Mistral 3 family of models released”
Caveats and dissent
“priced $1.5/$7.5 per million input/output tokens (change from the previous $0.4/$2)”
switched from Devstral 2on “Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris”
“the fact it's a "Medium" and 5x the price of the Large definitely concerns me”
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Often compared with
GLM3 comments mention both
2 moved from Mistral Medium to GLM
GPT-51 comment mention both
1 moved from GPT-5 to Mistral Medium
Devstral 21 comment mention both
1 moved from Devstral 2 to Mistral Medium
Mistral Large3 comments mention both
Mistral Small2 comments mention both
Kimi2 comments mention both
Mistral Vibe2 comments mention both
Qwen2 comments mention both
2 moved from Mistral Medium to GLM
1 moved from GPT-5 to Mistral Medium
1 moved from Devstral 2 to Mistral Medium
Threads where it came up
- Mistral Medium 3.5 6 mentions
- Mistral Large 4 2 mentions
- An empirical study of harness design for coding agents 1 mention
- Kimi K3 is now live 1 mention
- A Robot Is Sprinting Towards You: Do You Want It Running on Claude or Grok? 1 mention
- Show HN: Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns? 1 mention
Also written as Mistral Medium, Mistral Medium 3.1. Data: mistral-medium.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 18
“It's 10x cheaper than Mistral Medium 3.5 from April”
“I struggled on with Mistral Medium 3.5 for longer than I should have”
“the models are Nemotron-3 and Mistral-Medium, not the frontier models”
“twice the European counterpart”
“Gemini 3.5 Flash and Mistral Medium 3.5 being significantly better at real-time decision making”
“Mistral Medium 3.5 costs 5x the price of Mistral Large 3”
“priced $1.5/$7.5 per million input/output tokens (change from the previous $0.4/$2)”
“Mistral Medium 3.5 is interesting because it's 128B but dense”
“the fact it's a "Medium" and 5x the price of the Large definitely concerns me”
“For it's size, that's really good!”
“I also did some SVG tests, it's really bad.”
I didn't know about HERMES.md ... (??) - found information here for others who are curious https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/53262
“it's pretty disappointing.”
“but is worse than Sonnet 3.6”
“I use mistral-medium-3.1 for a lot of random daily tasks”
“if price, speed, and reliability are a concern for your use cases I cannot recommend Mistral enough.”
“rigged it so that Mistral Medium 3.1 would be at the top”
“Note on Mistral Medium's great performance : there is no style control on compar:IA”