Which is cheaper, Magistral Small 2506 or Mistral Medium 3.5?
As of August 30, 2026, Magistral Small 2506 is 78% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. Magistral Small 2506 costs $0.50 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens ($2.00 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). Mistral Medium 3.5 costs $1.50 / $7.50 per million tokens ($9.00 blended). Sources: https://mistral.ai/technology/pricing and https://docs.mistral.ai/platform/pricing/. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
How much does Magistral Small 2506 vs Mistral Medium 3.5 cost per million tokens?
Magistral Small 2506 Mistral API pricing is $0.50 input and $1.50 output per million tokens via Mistral AI. Mistral Medium 3.5 Mistral API pricing is $1.50 input and $7.50 output per million tokens via Mistral AI. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
Which is better for coding, Magistral Small 2506 or Mistral Medium 3.5?
Mistral Medium 3.5 has a published SWE-bench Verified score of 77.6%. Magistral Small 2506 does not have that eval on this page yet.
What is the context window for Magistral Small 2506 vs Mistral Medium 3.5?
Magistral Small 2506 supports a 40K token context window, while Mistral Medium 3.5 supports 256K tokens. Mistral Medium 3.5 offers a larger context window. Filling a larger window bills more input tokens, so the cheaper-per-million model can still cost more on long documents.
Which model performs better on benchmarks, Magistral Small 2506 or Mistral Medium 3.5?
Magistral Small 2506 and Mistral Medium 3.5 are tied across 2 shared benchmarks. Check the table for category-level strengths. Check the comparison table for GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench, MMLU, HLE, and the other evals we track. Token price and benchmark score together are the usual LLM comparison, not either number alone.
Is Magistral Small 2506 or Mistral Medium 3.5 better for production use?
Both Magistral Small 2506 and Mistral Medium 3.5 are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, Magistral Small 2506 has better economics on the blended 1M-in + 1M-out scale. For maximum capability, weight the benchmark table for your domain. Many production stacks route cheap models for drafts and a frontier model for the hard turn, which is usually cheaper than sending everything to the expensive API.
Can I switch between Magistral Small 2506 and Mistral Medium 3.5 in my app?
Yes. Call Magistral Small 2506 through Mistral AI and Mistral Medium 3.5 through Mistral AI with separate API keys, or through a gateway that already wraps both. Keep prompts in tokens, not characters, when you estimate the invoice. AnotherWrapper templates can swap providers without rewriting auth and billing.
How accurate is this Magistral Small 2506 vs Mistral Medium 3.5 pricing data?
List rates are the latest published Mistral API pricing and Mistral API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://mistral.ai/technology/pricing and https://docs.mistral.ai/platform/pricing/. Prompt caching, batch APIs, and committed-use discounts can change the invoice. Benchmark scores are from official publications and independent evals, updated as new numbers land.
What is the output token limit for Magistral Small 2506 and Mistral Medium 3.5?
Magistral Small 2506 supports up to an unspecified number of output tokens per request, while Mistral Medium 3.5 supports up to 256K output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.
Which model has better throughput, Magistral Small 2506 or Mistral Medium 3.5?
Mistral Medium 3.5 has a measured throughput of approximately 1 tokens/second. Throughput data for Magistral Small 2506 is not yet available. Throughput (tokens per second) and time-to-first-token are why two models with the same per-million-token price can still feel different in chat and agents.
How do I switch the models in this Magistral Small 2506 vs Mistral Medium 3.5 comparison?
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open Magistral Small 2506 or Mistral Medium 3.5 from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.
