Mistral Medium 3 vs OpenAI GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Mistral Medium 3 is 1.6× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Mistral Medium 3 accepts longer prompts: 131K vs 4K tokens.
- Mistral Medium 3 is the newer model (released 2025-05-07).
| Mistral Medium 3 | GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613) | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Mistral | OpenAI |
| Released | 2025-05-07 | 2024-01-25 |
| Input / 1M | $0.40 | $1.00 |
| Output / 1M | $2.00 | $2.00 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.04 | — |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.80 | $1.25 |
| Context | 131K | 4K |
| Max output | 105K | 4K |
| Accepts | text, image, file | text |
| Reasoning | No | No |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 3 | 1 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $2.00 | $2.00 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | Operational | Operational |
Cost calculator
Mistral Medium 3
$54.00 per month$1.80 per day
GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)
$90.00 per month$3.00 per day
Mistral Medium 3 saves $36.00 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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