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Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral·

LLMsopen-weightWorkstation

Overview

128B dense flagship from Mistral with 256k context, multimodal (text + vision), open weights under a modified MIT license. Self-hostable on 4 GPUs at ~70GB VRAM with Q4 quantization. First Mistral flagship trained on the new 13,800-GPU Paris facility, merging Magistral (reasoning) and Devstral 2 (coding) into one model.

Capabilities and innovations

128B dense parameters256k context windowMultimodal (text + vision)Reasoning + coding unifiedModified MIT licenseFirst flagship trained on Mistral's 13,800-GPU Paris facilityUnified Magistral (reasoning) + Devstral 2 (coding) in one modelModified MIT release at flagship scale

Benchmarks

BenchmarkScoreSource
SWE-bench Verified77.6%unsourced
Terminal-Bench 2.x38.95%independent
Terminal-Bench 2.1 38.95%, measured by Vals AI with the Terminus 2 harness (accessed 2026-09-23). Vals AI is the reference harness for this field so values compare across vendors; vendor and other third-party figures stay in the notes below. No Terminal-Bench 2.x value was recorded before.

Architecture and hardware

Parameters
128B total, 128B active per token (Dense)
Estimated VRAM at Q4
~74 GB, Workstation class
Quantization formats
GGUF, GPTQ, AWQ
Recommended runtime
vLLM
License
Modified MIT

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