Mistral Medium 3.5 pricing and routing profile
Mistral Medium 3.5 from Mistral AI lists at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens, with a 262,144-token context window. Prices from OpenRouter's catalogue on 2026-09-28.
Tool callingStructured outputReasoning control
Cost per 1,000 requests
| Request shape | List cost |
|---|---|
| Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out) | $0.975 |
| Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out) | $6.00 |
| Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out) | $15.75 |
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Can Gimbix route to it first?
Not as a first-answer model through OpenRouter: no host returns token log probabilities for Mistral Medium 3.5. It can still be the model Gimbix falls back to when a cheaper model is unsure.
Cheaper models that can answer first
Models priced below Mistral Medium 3.5 that expose a confidence signal. Whether they answer your traffic as well is what a Gimbix pilot measures.
| Model | Input / output per 1M | Cheaper on a chat reply |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.7 Max | $1.48 / $4.42 | 21% |
| GLM 5.1 | $1.40 / $4.40 | 24% |
| Qwen3.6 Max Preview | $1.03 / $6.16 | 25% |
| Grok 4.3 | $1.25 / $2.50 | 42% |
| Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent | $1.25 / $2.50 | 42% |
| Grok 4.20 | $1.25 / $2.50 | 42% |
Questions
How much does Mistral Medium 3.5 cost?
Mistral Medium 3.5 lists at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens on OpenRouter as of 2026-09-28. A typical chat reply of 2,000 input and 400 output tokens costs about $6.00 per 1,000 requests.
What is the context window of Mistral Medium 3.5?
262,144 tokens.
Can a cheaper model replace Mistral Medium 3.5?
Sometimes. Gimbix proves it on your own traffic before routing: the cheaper model must match Mistral Medium 3.5 on one half of your requests and make at most three answers worse on the other.