Qwen3.8-Max vs Mistral Medium 3.5
Side-by-side specs, pricing and capabilities. Both models run on Clade under one subscription, so you can switch between them in the same conversation.
Qwen3.8-Max comes from Alibaba and Mistral Medium 3.5 from Mistral. The practical difference for most people is context, price, and which input types each one accepts.
Qwen3.8-Max holds more in a single conversation — 1M tokens against 262K — which matters for long documents and large codebases.
Mistral Medium 3.5 is the cheaper of the two on input tokens at $1.50 / 1M tokens.
| Specification | Qwen3.8-Max | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba | Mistral |
| Model ID | qwen3.8-max | mistral-medium-latest |
| Context window | 1M | 262K |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input price | $2.00 / 1M tokens | $1.50 / 1M tokens |
| Output price | $6.00 / 1M tokens | $7.50 / 1M tokens |
| Knowledge cutoff | — | — |
| Input types | text, image, video | text, image |
| Output types | text | text |
| Plan | All paid plans | All paid plans |
Which should you use?
Pick Qwen3.8-Max when…
- You need the larger context window — 1M against 262K.
- You need video input, which the other model does not accept.
Pick Mistral Medium 3.5 when…
- Cost matters: input runs at $1.50 / 1M tokens versus $2.00 / 1M tokens.
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You do not have to choose. One Clade subscription gives you Qwen3.8-Max, Mistral Medium 3.5, and every other model on the platform.