Mistral Medium 3.1 vs Qwen3-Max
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.
Mistral Medium 3.1 comes from Mistral and Qwen3-Max from Alibaba. The practical difference for most people is context, price, and which input types each one accepts.
Qwen3-Max holds more in a single conversation — 256K tokens against 128K — which matters for long documents and large codebases.
Mistral Medium 3.1 is the cheaper of the two on input tokens at $0.40 / 1M tokens.
| Specification | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Qwen3-Max |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral | Alibaba |
| Model ID | mistral-medium-latest | qwen3-max |
| Context window | 128K | 256K |
| Max output | 8K | 80K |
| Input price | $0.40 / 1M tokens | $1.20 / 1M tokens |
| Output price | $2.00 / 1M tokens | $6.00 / 1M tokens |
| Knowledge cutoff | — | — |
| Input types | text, image, file, audio | text |
| Output types | text | text |
| Plan | Free | Premium |
Which should you use?
Pick Mistral Medium 3.1 when…
- Cost matters: input runs at $0.40 / 1M tokens versus $1.20 / 1M tokens.
- You need image and file and audio input, which the other model does not accept.
- You are on the free plan — this model is included without an upgrade.
Pick Qwen3-Max when…
- You need the larger context window — 256K against 128K.
- You want longer single responses — up to 80K output tokens.
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