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Mistral Medium 3.5
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RANKED #175 OF 316 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #249 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 6.2 · 223 VOICES ·
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Mistral Medium 3.5 is a dense 128B instruction-following model from Mistral AI. It supports text and image inputs with text output, and is designed for agentic workflows, coding, and complex...
HAPPY9.6
42 mentions
SAD5.4
40 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 231 voices in this window
QUIETLY DEGRADING
Recent vibe and chatter are both sliding.
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 Mistral Medium 3.5 once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
128B dense parameters, a Q4 file is about 75 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
Custom PC with 3x Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 24GB
72 GB VRAM PLUS 64 GB RAM
~$2,600 USEDIQ3_XXS or Q3_K quant with partial CPU offload, ~8 tok/s, 8k context
- SWEET SPOT
Apple Mac Studio M2 Ultra with 128 GB Unified Memory
128 GB UNIFIED MEMORY
~$3,400 USEDQ4_K_M quant in full memory, ~14 tok/s, 32k context
- FULL POWER
Custom workstation with 4x Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada 48GB
192 GB VRAM PLUS 256 GB RAM
~$28,000 NEWFP8 or FP16 full precision, ~32 tok/s, 128k context
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN MISTRAL MEDIUM 3.5?
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 Mistral Medium 3.5 takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMCustom PC with 3x Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 24GB | SWEET SPOTApple Mac Studio M2 Ultra with 128 GB Unified Memory | FULL POWERCustom workstation with 4x Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada 48GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~63 S★★★★★ | ~36 S★★★★★ | ~16 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~3.1 MIN★★★★★ | ~1.8 MIN★★★★★ | ~47 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~17 MIN★★★★★ | ~9.5 MIN★★★★★ | ~4.2 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~52 MIN★★★★★ | ~30 MIN★★★★★ | ~13 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~31 MIN★★★★★ | ~18 MIN★★★★★ | ~7.8 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 Mistral Medium 3.5 yet to call it. We found 223 posts but people did not say much either way.
142 POSTS · 81 COMMENTS · REDDIT · GITHUB · DEV.TO · LEMMY · HACKER NEWS · X
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?
Checked picks first: tags say why you would switch, stars say how fully each one stands in for Mistral Medium 3.5.
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- REDDIT · 2026-04-30 · 587 UPVOTESMistral Medium 3.5 is the only non-Chinese open-source model in the top 25 of the SWE-Bench Verified benchmark.
Mistral Medium 3.5 is the only non-Chinese open-source model in the top 25 of the SWE-Bench Verified benchmark.
- REDDIT · 2026-06-30 · 529 UPVOTESGiven the amount of resources of Mistral, it seems like a miracle that they are still relevant
Given the amount of resources of Mistral, it seems like a miracle that they are still relevant
- REDDIT · 2026-04-29 · 365 UPVOTESMistral 3.5 out now!
Mistral 3.5 out now!
- REDDIT · 2026-04-29 · 327 UPVOTESMistral medium 3.5 is out
Mistral medium 3.5 is out
- REDDIT · 2026-04-30 · 271 UPVOTESMistral Medium 3.5: A reliability first open source model from Europe
Mistral Medium 3.5: A reliability first open source model from Europe
- REDDIT · 2026-04-30 · 258 UPVOTESMistral Medium 3.5: A reliability first open model from Europe
Mistral Medium 3.5: A reliability first open model from Europe
- 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 · 2026-05-27 · 155 UPVOTESMy Take on Mistral Medium 3.5 After a Month of Exclusive Use
My Take on Mistral Medium 3.5 After a Month of Exclusive Use
- REDDIT · 2026-10-07 · 152 UPVOTESMistral Large 4 is a good model
Mistral Large 4 is a good model
- REDDIT · 2026-04-29 · 148 UPVOTESMistral Medium 3.5 128B is launched
Mistral Medium 3.5 128B is launched
- REDDIT · 2026-04-29 · 140 UPVOTESMistral medium 3.5 benchmarks
Mistral medium 3.5 benchmarks