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Llama 4 Maverick vs Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral Medium 3.5 leads Llama 4 Maverick on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 14.2 to 9.3, and Llama 4 Maverick costs 7.5x less per output token ($1.00 vs $7.50 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 64 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Llama 4 Maverick Replace Mistral Medium 3.5
Llama 4 MaverickMeta Llama
Coding
No data
Overall
21.8
Output $/M
$1.00
5
Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral AI
Coding
25.5
Overall
37.3
Output $/M
$7.50
59
vs boards won of 64 shared

Llama 4 Maverick or Mistral Medium 3.5: which to pick

Only Mistral Medium 3.5 has a coding score, 25.5 on the Vibe Coding Index; Llama 4 Maverick has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.

Pick Llama 4 Maverick for output tokens 7.5x cheaper ($1.00 vs $7.50 per million) and a lower cost per solved task ($1.491 against $6.02).

Model ALlama 4 MaverickMeta LlamaNot benchmarkedNo coding benchmark$1.491 per solved taskModel BMistral Medium 3.5Mistral AI25.5/1003 independent benchmarks$6.02 per solved task
Shared results
64
Llama 4 Maverick only
21
Mistral Medium 3.5 only
17
Like-for-like categories
8 of 9

Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.

Which one for your work

Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.

At a glance

Coding index
Llama 4 Maverick not benchmarked, Mistral Medium 3.5 25.5 from 3 benchmarks.
Widest category
Agentic work, 41.4 points apart on average over 2 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
τ²-Bench Telecom: Llama 4 Maverick 17.8% against Mistral Medium 3.5 94.2%, 76.3 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Llama 4 Maverick $1.00 against Mistral Medium 3.5 $7.50 per million output tokens, 7.5x apart.
Context window
Llama 4 Maverick takes 524K tokens, Mistral Medium 3.5 262K.

Benchmark by benchmark

First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryLlama 4 MaverickBarsMistral Medium 3.5Ties
Coding06
Intelligence02
Agentic work02
Reasoning27
Math02
Knowledge36
Web design06
General028
All shared boards559
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index06
Coding benchmarks for Llama 4 Maverick and Mistral Medium 3.5
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickMistral Medium 3.5Leader
Aider polyglot15.6%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
SWE-bench Verified21.0%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena WebDevNot measured1264Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
AA Coding Index16.346.9Mistral Medium 3.5
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)47.3%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)Not measured66.4%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)Not measured2.9%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Code migration (Vals AI)Not measured5.1%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)Not measured39.0%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run)39.7%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
SciCode31.7%40.2%Mistral Medium 3.5
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)6.8%33.3%Mistral Medium 3.5
WeirdML24.5%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
ALE-Bench173.0764.0Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: coding13011460Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: software and IT12991458Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena WebDev: ReactNot measured1254Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
LMArena WebDev: HTMLNot measured1308Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 21 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
Intelligence benchmarks for Llama 4 Maverick and Mistral Medium 3.5
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickMistral Medium 3.5Leader
AA Intelligence Index9.314.2Mistral Medium 3.5
Epoch Capabilities Index132.2141.4Mistral Medium 3.5
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
Agentic work benchmarks for Llama 4 Maverick and Mistral Medium 3.5
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickMistral Medium 3.5Leader
AA Agentic Index0.67.0Mistral Medium 3.5
Finance Agent (Vals AI)Not measured32.1%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)Not measured4.5%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)Not measured9.1%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)Not measured11.2%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
τ²-Bench Telecom17.8%94.2%Mistral Medium 3.5
Neither model has a result on the other 35 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index27
Reasoning benchmarks for Llama 4 Maverick and Mistral Medium 3.5
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickMistral Medium 3.5Leader
GPQA Diamond69.4%34.9%Llama 4 Maverick
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)71.7%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)67.1%74.8%Mistral Medium 3.5
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)4.9%13.8%Mistral Medium 3.5
ARC-AGI4.4%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
ARC-AGI-20.0%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
SimpleBench27.7%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts12811436Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: expert12591432Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English12951445Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Vision: diagrams11341254Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Vision: homework11641230Mistral Medium 3.5
Kagi LLM Benchmark55.9%41.4%Llama 4 Maverick
Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
Math benchmarks for Llama 4 Maverick and Mistral Medium 3.5
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickMistral Medium 3.5Leader
AIME25.2%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
MATH 500 (Vals AI)85.2%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
MGSM (Vals AI)92.4%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
AA Math Index19.3Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run)19.3%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
ProofBenchNot measured9.0%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
LMArena Text: math12991431Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: mathematical work12951440Mistral Medium 3.5
Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index36
Knowledge benchmarks for Llama 4 Maverick and Mistral Medium 3.5
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickMistral Medium 3.5Leader
MMLU Pro79.4%75.3%Llama 4 Maverick
LegalBench (Vals AI)77.8%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
CaseLaw (Vals AI)Not measured44.2%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)49.7%58.8%Mistral Medium 3.5
TaxEval (Vals AI)66.6%68.0%Mistral Medium 3.5
MortgageTax (Vals AI)58.5%28.9%Llama 4 Maverick
MedQA (Vals AI)43.3%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
MedCode (Vals AI)36.5%33.8%Llama 4 Maverick
MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run)80.9%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
GeoBench52.0%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Text: science12881428Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare12751409Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: legal and government12861437Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: business and finance12601426Mistral Medium 3.5
Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index06
Web design benchmarks for Llama 4 Maverick and Mistral Medium 3.5
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickMistral Medium 3.5Leader
Design Arena: websites8711142Mistral Medium 3.5
Design Arena: UI components8961076Mistral Medium 3.5
Design Arena: game dev8371079Mistral Medium 3.5
Design Arena: data viz8821120Mistral Medium 3.5
Design Arena: 3D9001060Mistral Medium 3.5
Design Arena: all code categories8791121Mistral Medium 3.5
Design Arena: SVGNot measured949Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Design Arena: ASCII artNot measured1062Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index028
General benchmarks for Llama 4 Maverick and Mistral Medium 3.5
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickMistral Medium 3.5Leader
SAGE (Vals AI)35.7%37.6%Mistral Medium 3.5
MedScribe (Vals AI)54.2%67.7%Mistral Medium 3.5
Vals Multimodal IndexNot measured34.8%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
IFBench43.0%68.8%Mistral Medium 3.5
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)50.0%69.3%Mistral Medium 3.5
DTBench61.9%75.5%Mistral Medium 3.5
LMCA15.9%26.1%Mistral Medium 3.5
Fiction.LiveBench46.2%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
Creative writing (Lech Mazur)62.0%Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
Surface Evolver BenchNot measured26.9%Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured
LMArena Text12871421Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: instruction following12671415Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: creative writing12661374Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Vision11421222Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: English13031433Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: non-English12691404Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: Chinese12771444Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: German12911453Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: Japanese1206Not measuredOnly Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Text: Korean12031384Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: French12591448Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: Spanish12931411Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: Russian12861395Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: Polish12751430Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: multi-turn12891423Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: longer queries12801415Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: writing and language12771384Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text: entertainment and media12501382Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Vision: English11501240Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Vision: Chinese11411244Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Vision: reading text11431233Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Vision: humor11001216Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Vision: creative writing10991198Mistral Medium 3.5
Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Llama 4 Maverick and Mistral Medium 3.5
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickMistral Medium 3.5Leader
Neither model has a result on 5 boards here

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.

Chat turn

1K input + 500 output tokens

Llama 4 Maverick$0.0008Fits in one request
Mistral Medium 3.5$0.0053Fits in one request

Llama 4 Maverick costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Llama 4 Maverick$0.021Fits in one request
Mistral Medium 3.5$0.098Fits in one request

Llama 4 Maverick costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Llama 4 Maverick$0.080Fits in one request
Mistral Medium 3.5$0.375Fits in one request

Llama 4 Maverick costs less

Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.

Specification differences

The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.

Specifications of Llama 4 Maverick and Mistral Medium 3.5
SpecificationMeta Llama 4 MaverickMistral Medium 3.5
MakerMeta LlamaMistral AI
WeightsOpen weightsNo public weights listed
ReleasedApril 5, 2025April 30, 2026
Context window524K262K
Input $/Mtok$0.35$1.50
Output $/Mtok$1.00$7.50
Coding indexNot benchmarked25.5
Independent measurements behind it03
Cost per solved task$1.491$6.02
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Llama 4 Maverick better than Mistral Medium 3.5 for coding?

Only Mistral Medium 3.5 has a coding score, 25.5 on the Vibe Coding Index; Llama 4 Maverick has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Llama 4 Maverick for output tokens 7.5x cheaper ($1.00 vs $7.50 per million) and a lower cost per solved task ($1.491 against $6.02).

Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Maverick or Mistral Medium 3.5?

Llama 4 Maverick costs $0.35 per million input tokens and $1.00 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.5 costs $1.50 and $7.50. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, Llama 4 Maverick costs $1.491 and Mistral Medium 3.5 $6.02.

Which has the bigger context window, Llama 4 Maverick or Mistral Medium 3.5?

Llama 4 Maverick, with 524K tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks is the Llama 4 Maverick vs Mistral Medium 3.5 comparison based on?

64 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Llama 4 Maverick's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Mistral Medium 3.5's on 3. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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