Very long inputs
Choose Mistral Medium 3.5
Mistral Medium 3.5 reads up to 256k tokens per request, against 128k for Command A+.
Command A+ vs Mistral Medium 3.5: price, context and capabilities
Choose Command A+ for the latest release. Choose Mistral Medium 3.5 for very long inputs, agentic coding, tool use and support agents, reasoning over long documents and self-hosting and data control.
In short
- A price comparison is not possible: one of them has no comparable published price.
- Mistral Medium 3.5 reads more per request: 256k tokens against 128k.
- Command A+ is the newer model (May 2026, against April 2026).
- Only Mistral Medium 3.5 offers self-hostable.
Which should you choose?
Each answer below comes straight from the published prices, specifications and independent benchmark results.
Hardest reasoning tasks
Either one
They are practically level on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (13.1 and 14.2).
Agentic coding
Choose Mistral Medium 3.5
Mistral Medium 3.5 scores 33.3% on Terminal-Bench Hard, against 25% for Command A+.
Tool use and support agents
Choose Mistral Medium 3.5
Mistral Medium 3.5 scores 94.2% on τ²-Bench (agentic tool use), against 80.7% for Command A+.
Reasoning over long documents
Choose Mistral Medium 3.5
Mistral Medium 3.5 scores 69.3% on Long-context reasoning (AA-LCR), against 52.7% for Command A+.
Self-hosting and data control
Choose Mistral Medium 3.5
Mistral Medium 3.5 has open weights, so you can run it on your own servers; Command A+ is only available through its provider.
Latest release
Choose Command A+
Command A+ is the newer release (May 2026, against April 2026 for Mistral Medium 3.5).
Specifications side by side
| Command A+ | Mistral Medium 3.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Mistral AI |
| Category | Language models | Language models |
| Status | Generally available | Generally available |
| Headline price | No data | No data |
| Input | No data | No data |
| Output | No data | No data |
| Cached input | No data | No data |
| Context window | 128k | 256k |
| Max output | No data | No data |
| Released | May 2026 | April 2026 |
| Knowledge cutoff | No data | No data |
| Licence | Proprietary | Open weights |
| Capabilities | Vision, Tool calling, Structured output | Vision, Tool calling, Structured output, Self-hostable |
| API model id | command-a-plus-05-2026 | mistral-medium-3-5 |
Benchmarks side by side
Leader in bold.
| Benchmark | Command A+ | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Intelligence Index | 13.1 | 14.2 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | 25% | 33.3% |
| SciCode | 38.5% | 40.2% |
| GPQA Diamond | 76.1% | 74.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 12% | 13.8% |
| IFBench (instruction following) | 73.9% | 68.8% |
| τ²-Bench (agentic tool use) | 80.7% | 94.2% |
| MMMU-Pro (visual reasoning) | 63.2% | 64.9% |
| Long-context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 52.7% | 69.3% |
Independent evaluations by Artificial Analysis, run the same way for every model, at the reasoning setting shown. Percentages unless marked as an index.
Frequently asked questions
Should I choose Command A+ or Mistral Medium 3.5?
Choose Command A+ for the latest release. Choose Mistral Medium 3.5 for very long inputs, agentic coding, tool use and support agents, reasoning over long documents and self-hosting and data control.
Which is cheaper, Command A+ or Mistral Medium 3.5?
A price comparison is not possible: one of them has no comparable published price.
Which has the larger context window, Command A+ or Mistral Medium 3.5?
Mistral Medium 3.5 reads more per request: 256k tokens against 128k.
What is the difference between Command A+ and Mistral Medium 3.5?
Command A+ is made by Cohere and Mistral Medium 3.5 by Mistral AI. A price comparison is not possible: one of them has no comparable published price. Mistral Medium 3.5 reads more per request: 256k tokens against 128k. Command A+ is the newer model (May 2026, against April 2026). Only Mistral Medium 3.5 offers self-hostable.
Which is better for coding, Command A+ or Mistral Medium 3.5?
Mistral Medium 3.5 scores 33.3% on Terminal-Bench Hard, against 25% for Command A+.
Which is newer, Command A+ or Mistral Medium 3.5?
Command A+ was released on May 2026 and Mistral Medium 3.5 on April 2026.