🏆 FlagshipBudget-Friendly

Mistral Medium 3.5

Frontier-class multimodal model optimized for agentic, reasoning, and coding use cases.

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Input Price

$1.5

per 1M tokens

Output Price

$7.5

per 1M tokens

Context Window

256K

tokens (32.768K max output)

Specifications

Release Date2026-04-29

Category🏆 Flagship

Context Window256,000 tokens

Max Output32,768 tokens

ProviderMistral AI

Input Cost$1.5 / 1M tokens

Output Cost$7.5 / 1M tokens

Price TierBudget-Friendly

Capabilities

textvisioncodereasoning

Related Use Cases

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~2,000 in · ~500 out

Document Summarizer

Calculate how much it costs to summarize documents, reports, and articles with AI.

~8,000 in · ~1,000 out

AI Code Assistant

Calculate the cost of building an AI-powered coding assistant or copilot.

~4,000 in · ~2,000 out

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~1,500 in · ~3,000 out

Image Analysis

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~6,000 in · ~500 out

Monthly Cost Estimates

Usage Level	Daily Tokens	Daily	Monthly	Yearly
Light~50 requests/day	100K in / 20K out	$0.30	$9.00	$110
Medium~200 requests/day	500K in / 100K out	$1.50	$45.00	$548
Heavy~1K requests/day	2,000K in / 500K out	$6.75	$202.50	$2464
Enterprise~5K requests/day	10,000K in / 2,000K out	$30.00	$900.00	$10950

Cost Calculator

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much does Mistral Medium 3.5 API cost per million tokens?▼

Mistral Medium 3.5 costs $1.5 per million input tokens and $7.5 per million output tokens as of 2026. These are the standard API rates from Mistral AI.

What is the Mistral Medium 3.5 context window?▼

Mistral Medium 3.5 supports a 256K context window (256,000 tokens), which means you can process up to 256K tokens in a single API call.

How much does Mistral Medium 3.5 cost per month?▼

At medium usage (~200 requests/day with 500K input and 100K output tokens/day), Mistral Medium 3.5 costs approximately $45.00/month. Light usage runs about $9.00/month, and heavy usage (~1K requests/day) around $202.50/month.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Mistral Medium 3.5?▼

Yes — Codex Mini by OpenAI is a cheaper option at $1.5/M input tokens vs $1.5/M for Mistral Medium 3.5. Other budget alternatives include models in the efficient tier.

Is Mistral Medium 3.5 good for ai agent / agentic workflows?▼

Mistral Medium 3.5 is a flagship model with support for text, vision, code. For ai agent / agentic workflows, it offers 256K context and costs $1.5/M input tokens — a budget-friendly choice for this use case.

Mistral Medium 3.5 Comparisons

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