Qwen3.8 Max → Mistral Medium 3.5: cost per request on six tasks
Mistral Medium 3.5 costs between 23% less and 11% more than Qwen3.8 Max per request on six common tasks. It costs no more per result that works if its results work first time at least 77% as often as Qwen3.8 Max's on search re-ranking, and 12% more often on translation.
List prices per million tokens
| Model | Input | Cached input | Output |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 Max | $2.00 | n/a | $6.00 |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 | $1.50 | n/a | $7.50 |
Prices checked 2026-11-12.
Cost per 1,000 requests
| Task | Qwen3.8 Max | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Change | Cheaper per result that works if it works first time at least |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support bot answerInstructions, three help-centre passages and the customer's question in; a short answer out. | $7.80 | $6.75 | 13% less | 87% as often as Qwen3.8 Max |
| Invoice field extractionInstructions and one invoice's text in; about 15 fields as JSON out. | $6.50 | $5.63 | 13% less | 87% as often as Qwen3.8 Max |
| Lead scoringScoring rules and one lead's form answers in; a score and a one-line reason out. | $3.00 | $2.55 | 15% less | 85% as often as Qwen3.8 Max |
| Email reply draftInstructions and the email thread so far in; a reply of about 300 words out. | $5.40 | $5.25 | 3% less | 98% as often as Qwen3.8 Max |
| TranslationInstructions and about 500 words of text in; the same text in another language out. | $6.60 | $7.35 | 11% more | 12% more often than Qwen3.8 Max |
| Search re-rankingA search query and 20 result snippets in; the ids of the best five, in order, out. | $8.30 | $6.38 | 23% less | 77% as often as Qwen3.8 Max |
Token counts are typical sizes, not measurements.
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