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Mistral Medium 3.1 vs Mistral Small Creative

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

Mistral Medium 3.1 wins:

  • Larger context window
  • Faster response time
  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding
  • Better at math
  • Supports vision

Mistral Small Creative wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Cheaper output tokens
Price Advantage
Mistral Small Creative
Benchmark Advantage
Mistral Medium 3.1
Context Window
Mistral Medium 3.1
Speed
Mistral Medium 3.1

Pricing Comparison

Benchmark Comparison

Context & Performance

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureMistral Medium 3.1Mistral Small Creative
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyMistral Medium 3.1Mistral Small Creative
LicenseProprietaryOpen Source
AuthorMistral AIMistral AI
ReleasedAug 2025Dec 2025

Mistral Medium 3.1 Modalities

Input
textimage
Output
text

Mistral Small Creative Modalities

Input
text
Output
text

Frequently Asked Questions

Mistral Small Creative has cheaper input pricing at $0.10/M tokens. Mistral Small Creative has cheaper output pricing at $0.30/M tokens.
Mistral Medium 3.1 has a 131,072 token context window, while Mistral Small Creative has a 32,768 token context window.
Mistral Medium 3.1 supports vision. Mistral Small Creative does not support vision.