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Medium 3.5 128B
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RANKED #225 OF 316 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #342 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 5.7 · 53 VOICES ·
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Mistral Medium 3 is a high-performance enterprise-grade language model designed to deliver frontier-level capabilities at significantly reduced operational cost. It balances state-of-the-art reasoning and multimodal performance with 8× lowe
HAPPY10.0
5 mentions
SAD5.0
1 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 39 voices in this window
AGING WELL
The crowd is warmer now than it was at the start.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Medium 3.5 128B once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
128B dense parameters, a Q4_K_M GGUF file is about 75 GB, requiring at least 80 GB total memory
- BARE MINIMUM
Desktop PC with 96 GB DDR5 RAM and RTX 3060 12GB
96 GB RAM + 12 GB VRAM
~$900 USEDIQ3_XXS or Q3_K_S quant offloaded mostly to CPU RAM, ~3 tok/s, 8k context
- SWEET SPOT
Apple Mac Studio (M2/M3 Ultra, 128 GB RAM)
128 GB UNIFIED MEMORY
~$3600 USEDQ4_K_M quant in unified memory, ~16 tok/s, 32k context
- FULL POWER
Custom 4x NVIDIA RTX 3090 24GB Rig
96 GB VRAM
~$3200 USEDQ4_K_M or Q5_K_M fully VRAM accelerated, ~28 tok/s, 64k context
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN MEDIUM 3.5 128B?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Medium 3.5 128B takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMDesktop PC with 96 GB DDR5 RAM and RTX 3060 12GB | SWEET SPOTApple Mac Studio (M2/M3 Ultra, 128 GB RAM) | FULL POWERCustom 4x NVIDIA RTX 3090 24GB Rig |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~2.8 MIN★★★★★ | ~31 S★★★★★ | ~18 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~8.3 MIN★★★★★ | ~1.6 MIN★★★★★ | ~54 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~44 MIN★★★★★ | ~8.3 MIN★★★★★ | ~4.8 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~2.3 HR★★★★★ | ~26 MIN★★★★★ | ~15 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~83 MIN★★★★★ | ~16 MIN★★★★★ | ~8.9 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Not enough discussion about Medium 3.5 128B yet to call it. We found 53 posts but people did not say much either way.
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PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Other models the crowd has fully reviewed, starting with multimodal models like this one.
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Qwen3.8 27B> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2026-04-29 · 365 UPVOTESMistral 3.5 out now!
Mistral 3.5 out now!
- REDDIT · 2025-08-12 · 361 UPVOTESMistral launches Medium 3.1 with improvements in performance, tone, and web searches
Mistral launches Medium 3.1 with improvements in performance, tone, and web searches
- REDDIT · 2026-04-29 · 327 UPVOTESMistral medium 3.5 is out
Mistral medium 3.5 is out
- REDDIT · 2025-05-07 · 285 UPVOTESIntroducing Le Chat Enterprise and Mistral Medium 3
Introducing Le Chat Enterprise and Mistral Medium 3
- REDDIT · 2025-08-14 · 203 UPVOTESMistral Medium 3.1 is looking quite good. Is this why Apple wants to buy Mistral?
Mistral Medium 3.1 is looking quite good. Is this why Apple wants to buy Mistral?
- REDDIT · 2025-08-12 · 185 UPVOTESIntroducing Mistral Medium 3.1
Introducing Mistral Medium 3.1
- REDDIT · 2026-04-29 · 180 UPVOTES[New Model and More] Remote Agents in Vibe, Powered by Mistral Medium 3.5 in Public Preview
[New Model and More] Remote Agents in Vibe, Powered by Mistral Medium 3.5 in Public Preview
- REDDIT · 2026-05-02 · 171 UPVOTESMistral 3.5 Fixes
Mistral 3.5 Fixes
- REDDIT · 2026-09-04 · 160 UPVOTESDrummer's Artemis 31B v1 and v1.1 - Coming back with a bang!
Drummer's Artemis 31B v1 and v1.1 - Coming back with a bang!
- REDDIT · 2025-11-26 · 157 UPVOTESMistral might be releasing a new model soon
Mistral might be releasing a new model soon
- REDDIT · 2025-08-12 · 150 UPVOTESmistral medium 3.1 is now powering top European vibe code platform chat
mistral medium 3.1 is now powering top European vibe code platform chat
- REDDIT · 2026-04-29 · 148 UPVOTESMistral Medium 3.5 128B is launched
Mistral Medium 3.5 128B is launched