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Migrating from magistral-medium-2506 to mistral-medium-3-5

What changes when you move from magistral-medium-2506 to mistral-medium-3-5: input price −25%, output price +50%, context window 40,000 → 256,000 tokens.

Status
Retired
Shutdown
Nov 30, 2025
Time left
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Status
Active
Shutdown
none announced
Time left
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Prices

USD per 1M tokens, standard tier
Typemagistral-medium-2506mistral-medium-3-5Change
Input$2.00first seen October 5, 2026 · source$1.50first seen October 5, 2026 · source−25%
Output$5.00first seen October 5, 2026 · source$7.50first seen October 5, 2026 · source+50%

At 1M input and 250K output tokens a month: $3.25 on magistral-medium-2506, $3.375 on mistral-medium-3-5 (+3.8%).

Other tiers, prompt-size bands and modalities are on each model's page.

Limits

Tokens
Limitmagistral-medium-2506mistral-medium-3-5Change
Context window40,000 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source256,000 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source+540%
Max output tokensNot publishedNot published—

Benchmarks

Same benchmark, source and setting on both sides
Benchmarkmagistral-medium-2506mistral-medium-3-5Change
Arena TextArena. Ranges don't overlap.1305 ±61427 ±6+122
Arena Text: CodingArena. Ranges don't overlap.1387 ±121478 ±11+91

A score from one source is never compared with another source's, and company-reported scores are compared only within the same company; settings named where they differ. Data: Arena (arena.ai), CC BY 4.0.

Features and parameters

Compare models

Same on both

  • Function calling: supported on both.magistral-medium-2506: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · mistral-medium-3-5: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
  • Batch API: supported on both.magistral-medium-2506: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · mistral-medium-3-5: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
  • PDF input: supported on both.magistral-medium-2506: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · mistral-medium-3-5: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
  • Reasoning / thinking: supported on both.magistral-medium-2506: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · mistral-medium-3-5: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source

Not published for magistral-medium-2506: Structured outputs, Prompt caching, Image input, Fine-tuning, Built-in web search, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs, Max output tokens.

Not published for mistral-medium-3-5: Prompt caching, Fine-tuning, Built-in web search, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs, Max output tokens.

Aliases

All aliases

No aliases point at magistral-medium-2506.

Aliases pointing at mistral-medium-3-5: mistral-medium-latest (in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source)

Checklist

  1. Change the model string from magistral-medium-2506 to mistral-medium-3-5.
  2. Re-check costs: mistral-medium-3-5 costs more than magistral-medium-2506 (output +50%).

Compared from AIWire's published data when this page loaded. Each fact links to the page it came from. Model pages: magistral-medium-2506, mistral-medium-3-5.