Mistral Medium 3.5 vs MiMo-V2.5
Updated October 21, 2026. 75 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
Decision reading
Pick MiMo-V2.5 for coding: it scores 34.0 on the Vibe Coding Index against 9.2 for Mistral Medium 3.5.
Pick Mistral Medium 3.5 when what matters is ALE-Bench or τ²-Bench Telecom, where it leads.
- Shared results
- 75
- Mistral Medium 3.5 only
- 5
- MiMo-V2.5 only
- 5
- Like-for-like categories
- 8 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
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.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, four public coding benchmarks
MiMo-V2.5
MiMo-V2.5 scores 34.0 against 9.2.
One benchmark behind each score
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
MiMo-V2.5
MiMo-V2.5 leads, 21.8 against 14.2.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
MiMo-V2.5
MiMo-V2.5 leads, 15.8 against 7.0.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
MiMo-V2.5
MiMo-V2.5 leads, 81.6% against 34.9%.
Same board, both measured
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
MiMo-V2.5
MiMo-V2.5 leads, 82.9% against 75.3%.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
MiMo-V2.5
MiMo-V2.5 leads, 1266 against 1142.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
MiMo-V2.5
MiMo-V2.5 takes 1.05M tokens against 262K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
MiMo-V2.5
Mistral Medium 3.5 $0.0053, MiMo-V2.5 $0.0002 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
MiMo-V2.5
Mistral Medium 3.5 $6.02, MiMo-V2.5 $0.01.
Published attempt cost and pass rate
At a glance
- Coding index
- Mistral Medium 3.5 9.2 from 1 benchmark, MiMo-V2.5 34.0 from 1 benchmark.
- Widest category
- Web design, 18.8 points apart on average over 8 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- GPQA Diamond: Mistral Medium 3.5 34.9% against MiMo-V2.5 81.6%, 46.7 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Mistral Medium 3.5 $7.50 against MiMo-V2.5 $0.238 per million output tokens, 31.5x apart.
- Context window
- Mistral Medium 3.5 takes 262K tokens, MiMo-V2.5 1.05M.
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.
| Category | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Bars | MiMo-V2.5 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 1 | 12 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 1 | ||
| Agentic work | 1 | 4 | 1 tie | |
| Reasoning | 0 | 8 | ||
| Math | 0 | 3 | ||
| Knowledge | 2 | 7 | ||
| Web design | 0 | 8 | ||
| General | 5 | 22 | ||
| All shared boards | 9 | 65 | 1 tie |
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index112
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | MiMo-V2.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1264 | 1438 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| AA Coding Index | 46.9 | 56.8 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 81.5% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 66.4% | 71.0% | MiMo-V2.5 |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 2.9% | 42.2% | MiMo-V2.5 |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 5.1% | 14.2% | MiMo-V2.5 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 39.0% | 60.7% | MiMo-V2.5 |
| SciCode | 40.2% | 43.9% | MiMo-V2.5 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 33.3% | 41.7% | MiMo-V2.5 |
| ALE-Bench | 764.0 | 514.0 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1460 | 1469 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1458 | 1463 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1254 | 1425 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1308 | 1429 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 24 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | MiMo-V2.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 14.2 | 21.8 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.4 | Not measured | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index14
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | MiMo-V2.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 7.0 | 15.8 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 32.1% | 36.7% | MiMo-V2.5 |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 4.5% | 7.8% | MiMo-V2.5 |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 9.1% | 9.1% | Tie |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 11.2% | 55.1% | MiMo-V2.5 |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 94.2% | 90.6% | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 33 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index08
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | MiMo-V2.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 34.9% | 81.6% | MiMo-V2.5 |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | Not measured | 80.0% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 74.8% | 84.9% | MiMo-V2.5 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 13.8% | 27.2% | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1436 | 1450 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1432 | 1459 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1445 | 1461 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1254 | 1269 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1230 | 1262 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index03
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | MiMo-V2.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | 9.0% | 16.0% | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LMArena Text: math | 1431 | 1436 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1440 | 1451 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index27
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | MiMo-V2.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 75.3% | 82.9% | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 78.9% | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | 44.2% | Not measured | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 58.8% | 59.9% | MiMo-V2.5 |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 68.0% | 71.8% | MiMo-V2.5 |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 28.9% | 59.3% | MiMo-V2.5 |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 33.8% | 31.9% | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| LMArena Text: science | 1428 | 1440 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1409 | 1432 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1437 | 1425 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1426 | 1432 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index08
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | MiMo-V2.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1142 | 1266 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1079 | 1257 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1079 | 1249 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1120 | 1249 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1061 | 1216 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1122 | 1260 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| Design Arena: SVG | 949 | 1178 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1062 | 1141 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index522
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | MiMo-V2.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 37.6% | 43.3% | MiMo-V2.5 |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 67.7% | 72.2% | MiMo-V2.5 |
| Vals Multimodal Index | 34.8% | 52.8% | MiMo-V2.5 |
| IFBench | 68.8% | 67.1% | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 69.3% | 73.0% | MiMo-V2.5 |
| DTBench | 75.5% | Not measured | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMCA | 26.1% | Not measured | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 26.9% | Not measured | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1421 | 1428 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1415 | 1435 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1374 | 1393 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LMArena Vision | 1222 | 1247 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LMArena Text: English | 1433 | 1447 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1404 | 1405 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1444 | 1469 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LMArena Text: German | 1453 | 1421 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1306 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1384 | 1361 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| LMArena Text: French | 1448 | 1448 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1411 | 1414 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1395 | 1396 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1430 | 1413 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1423 | 1445 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1415 | 1445 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1384 | 1409 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1382 | 1399 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1240 | 1259 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1244 | 1326 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1233 | 1256 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1216 | 1226 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | Not measured | 1189 | Only MiMo-V2.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1198 | 1230 | MiMo-V2.5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.5 | MiMo-V2.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
MiMo-V2.5 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
MiMo-V2.5 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
MiMo-V2.5 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.
| Specification | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Mistral AI | Xiaomi |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | April 30, 2026 | April 22, 2026 |
| Context window | 262K | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $1.50 | $0.119 |
| Output $/Mtok | $7.50 | $0.238 |
| Coding index | 9.2 | 34.0 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 1 | 1 |
| Cost per solved task | $6.02 | $0.01 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Mistral Medium 3.5 better than MiMo-V2.5 for coding?
Pick MiMo-V2.5 for coding: it scores 34.0 on the Vibe Coding Index against 9.2 for Mistral Medium 3.5. Pick Mistral Medium 3.5 when what matters is ALE-Bench or τ²-Bench Telecom, where it leads.
Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium 3.5 or MiMo-V2.5?
Mistral Medium 3.5 costs $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens; MiMo-V2.5 costs $0.119 and $0.238. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, Mistral Medium 3.5 costs $6.02 and MiMo-V2.5 $0.01.
Which has the bigger context window, Mistral Medium 3.5 or MiMo-V2.5?
MiMo-V2.5, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks is the Mistral Medium 3.5 vs MiMo-V2.5 comparison based on?
75 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Mistral Medium 3.5's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and MiMo-V2.5's on 1. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.