Mistral Medium 3.5 128B

Mistral Medium 3.5 is our first flagship merged model. It is a dense 128B model with a 256k context window, handling instruction-following, reasoning, and coding in a single set of weights. Mistral Medium 3.5 replaces its predecessor Mistral Medium 3.1 and Magistral in Le Chat. It also replaces Devstral 2 in our coding agent Vibe. Concretely, expect better performance for instruct, reasoning and coding tasks in a new unified model in comparison with our previous released models.

Reasoning effort is configurable per request, so the same model can answer a quick chat reply or work through a complex agentic run. We trained the vision encoder from scratch to handle variable image sizes and aspect ratios.

Find more information on our blog.

To speed up local inference using vLLM or SGLang, check out our released EAGLE model.

Key Features

Mistral Medium 3.5 includes the following architectural choices:

Dense 128B parameters.
256k context length.
Multimodal input: Accepts both text and image input, with text output.
Instruct and Reasoning functionalities with function calls (reasoning effort configurable per request).

Mistral Medium 3.5 offers the following capabilities:

Reasoning Mode: Toggle between fast instant reply mode and reasoning mode, boosting performance with test-time compute when requested.
Vision: Analyzes images and provides insights based on visual content, in addition to text.
Multilingual: Supports dozens of languages, including English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic.
System Prompt: Strong adherence and support for system prompts.
Agentic: Best-in-class agentic capabilities with native function calling and JSON output.
Large Context Window: Supports a 256k context window.

We release this model under a Modified MIT License: Open-source license for both commercial and non-commercial use with exceptions for companies with large revenue.

Recommended Settings

Reasoning Effort:
- 'none' → Do not use reasoning
- 'high' → Use reasoning (recommended for complex prompts and agentic usage) Use reasoning_effort="high" for complex tasks and agentic coding.
Temperature: 0.7 for reasoning_effort="high". Temp between 0.0 and 0.7 for reasoning_effort="none" depending on the task. Generally, lower means answer that are more to the point and higher allows the model to be more creative. It is a good practice to try different values in order to improve the model performance to meet your demands.

Benchmarks

Agentic Benchmarks

Mistral Medium 3.5 supersedes all our previous coding models, namely Devstral, across all benchmarks. It scores 91.4% on τ³-Telecom and 77.6% on SWE-Bench Verified. Due to its stronger agentic capabilities, Mistral Medium 3.5 replaces Devstral 2 in our coding agent, Vibe CLI.

Instruction Following, Reasoning, and Coding Benchmarks

We compared Mistral Medium 3.5 with competing models on instruction following, reasoning (math), and coding benchmarks. Thanks to its unified capabilities, it achieves strong results across all these tasks and Mistral Medium 3.5 is now powering Le Chat.

Usage

You can find Mistral Medium 3.5 support on multiple libraries for inference and fine-tuning.

We here thank every contributors and maintainers that helped us making it happen.

Mistral-Vibe

Use Mistral Medium 3.5 with Mistral Vibe.

Install

Install the latest version:

uv pip install mistral-vibe --upgrade

API Usage

Mistral Medium 3.5 can be selected by starting vibe. If it is the first time you launch vibe, it will:

Create a default configuration file at ~/.vibe/config.toml.
Prompt you to enter your API key if it's not already configured.
Save your API key to ~/.vibe/.env for future use.

Now select mistral-medium-3.5 and start building !

Local server

If instead of pinging the Mistral API, you want to use a local vLLM server, you can do the following:

1. Spin up a vllm server as explained in Usage - vllm
1. Add the model configuration in ~/.vibe/config.toml:

display_name = "Mistral Medium 3.5 (local vLLM)"
description = "Mistral Medium 3.5 mode using local vLLM"
safety = "neutral"

active_model = "mistral-medium-3.5" # Make sure this is the only active_model entry
[[providers]]
name = "vllm"
api_base = "http://<your-host-url>:8000/v1"
api_key_env_var = ""
backend = "generic"
api_style = "reasoning"

[[models]]
name = "mistralai/Mistral-Medium-3.5-128B"
provider = "vllm"
alias = "mistral-medium-3.5"
thinking = "high"
temperature = 0.7
auto_compact_threshold = 168000

[tools.bash]
default_timeout = 1200

Notes:

Make sure to overwrite <your-host-url> with your server's url.
Other inference backends are also supported. Please look at Mistral Vibe repo for more info.

Then restart vibe and "tab-shift" to "mistral-medium-3.5" mode.

Give it a try on some coding agentic tasks and start building some cool stuff !

Inference

The model can be deployed with:

vllm (recommended): See here.
llama.cpp: WIP stay tuned !
LM studio: WIP stay tuned !
Ollama: See here.
SGLang: See here.
transformers: See here.

For optimal performance, we recommend using the Mistral AI API if local serving is subpar.

Fine-Tuning

Fine-tune the model via:

Axolotl: See here.
Unsloth: See here.

vLLM (Recommended)

We recommend using Mistral Medium 3.5 with the vLLM library for production-ready inference.

To speed up local inference using vLLM, check out our released EAGLE model

Installation

Make sure to install vllm nightly:

uv pip install -U vllm \
   --torch-backend=auto \
   --extra-index-url https://wheels.vllm.ai/nightly

Doing so should automatically install mistral_common >= 1.11.1 and transformers >= 5.4.0.

To check:

python -c "import mistral_common; print(mistral_common.__version__)"
python -c "import transformers; print(transformers.__version__)"

You can also make use of a ready-to-go docker image or on the docker hub.

Serve the Model

We recommend a server/client setup:

vllm serve mistralai/Mistral-Medium-3.5-128B --tensor-parallel-size 8 \
  --tool-call-parser mistral --enable-auto-tool-choice --reasoning-parser mistral --max_num_batched_tokens 16384 --max_num_seqs 128 \
  --gpu_memory_utilization 0.8

Ping the Server

Instruction Following

Mistral Medium 3.5 can follow your instructions to the letter.

from datetime import datetime, timedelta

from openai import OpenAI
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download

# Modify OpenAI's API key and API base to use vLLM's API server.
openai_api_key = "EMPTY"
openai_api_base = "http://localhost:8000/v1"

TEMP = 0.1
# use TEMP = 0.7 for reasoning="high"

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=openai_api_key,
    base_url=openai_api_base,
)

models = client.models.list()
model = models.data[0].id


def load_system_prompt(repo_id: str, filename: str) -> str:
    file_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id=repo_id, filename=filename)
    with open(file_path, "r") as file:
        system_prompt = file.read()
    today = datetime.today().strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
    yesterday = (datetime.today() - timedelta(days=1)).strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
    model_name = repo_id.split("/")[-1]
    return system_prompt.format(name=model_name, today=today, yesterday=yesterday)


SYSTEM_PROMPT = load_system_prompt(model, "SYSTEM_PROMPT.txt")

messages = [
    {"role": "system", "content": SYSTEM_PROMPT},
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "Write me a sentence where every word starts with the next letter in the alphabet - start with 'a' and end with 'z'.",
    },
]

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model=model,
    messages=messages,
    temperature=TEMP,
    reasoning_effort="none",
)

assistant_message = response.choices[0].message.content
print(assistant_message)

Tool Call

Let's solve some equations thanks to our simple Python calculator tool.

import json
from datetime import datetime, timedelta

from openai import OpenAI
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download

# Modify OpenAI's API key and API base to use vLLM's API server.
openai_api_key = "EMPTY"
openai_api_base = "http://localhost:8000/v1"

TEMP = 0.1

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=openai_api_key,
    base_url=openai_api_base,
)

models = client.models.list()
model = models.data[0].id


def load_system_prompt(repo_id: str, filename: str) -> str:
    file_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id=repo_id, filename=filename)
    with open(file_path, "r") as file:
        system_prompt = file.read()
    today = datetime.today().strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
    yesterday = (datetime.today() - timedelta(days=1)).strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
    model_name = repo_id.split("/")[-1]
    return system_prompt.format(name=model_name, today=today, yesterday=yesterday)


SYSTEM_PROMPT = load_system_prompt(model, "SYSTEM_PROMPT.txt")

image_url = "https://math-coaching.com/img/fiche/46/expressions-mathematiques.jpg"


def my_calculator(expression: str) -> str:
    return str(eval(expression))


tools = [
    {
        "type": "function",
        "function": {
            "name": "my_calculator",
            "description": "A calculator that can evaluate a mathematical expression.",
            "parameters": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "expression": {
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "The mathematical expression to evaluate.",
                    },
                },
                "required": ["expression"],
            },
        },
    },
    {
        "type": "function",
        "function": {
            "name": "rewrite",
            "description": "Rewrite a given text for improved clarity",
            "parameters": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "text": {
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "The input text to rewrite",
                    }
                },
            },
        },
    },
]

messages = [
    {"role": "system", "content": SYSTEM_PROMPT},
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {
                "type": "text",
                "text": "Thanks to your calculator, compute the results for the equations that involve numbers displayed in the image.",
            },
            {
                "type": "image_url",
                "image_url": {
                    "url": image_url,
                },
            },
        ],
    },
]

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model=model,
    messages=messages,
    temperature=TEMP,
    tools=tools,
    tool_choice="auto",
    reasoning_effort="none",
)

tool_calls = response.choices[0].message.tool_calls

results = []
for tool_call in tool_calls:
    function_name = tool_call.function.name
    function_args = tool_call.function.arguments
    if function_name == "my_calculator":
        result = my_calculator(**json.loads(function_args))
        results.append(result)

messages.append({"role": "assistant", "tool_calls": tool_calls})
for tool_call, result in zip(tool_calls, results):
    messages.append(
        {
            "role": "tool",
            "tool_call_id": tool_call.id,
            "name": tool_call.function.name,
            "content": result,
        }
    )


response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model=model,
    messages=messages,
    temperature=TEMP,
    reasoning_effort="none",
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Vision Reasoning

Let's see if the Mistral Medium 3.5 knows when to pick a fight !

from datetime import datetime, timedelta

from openai import OpenAI
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download

# Modify OpenAI's API key and API base to use vLLM's API server.
openai_api_key = "EMPTY"
openai_api_base = "http://localhost:8000/v1"

TEMP = 0.7

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=openai_api_key,
    base_url=openai_api_base,
)

models = client.models.list()
model = models.data[0].id


def load_system_prompt(repo_id: str, filename: str) -> str:
    file_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id=repo_id, filename=filename)
    with open(file_path, "r") as file:
        system_prompt = file.read()
    today = datetime.today().strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
    yesterday = (datetime.today() - timedelta(days=1)).strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
    model_name = repo_id.split("/")[-1]
    return system_prompt.format(name=model_name, today=today, yesterday=yesterday)


SYSTEM_PROMPT = load_system_prompt(model, "SYSTEM_PROMPT.txt")
image_url = "https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/essentialsdocs/images/7/70/Battle.png/revision/latest?cb=20220523172438"

messages = [
    {"role": "system", "content": SYSTEM_PROMPT},
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {
                "type": "text",
                "text": "What action do you think I should take in this situation? List all the possible actions and explain why you think they are good or bad.",
            },
            {"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": image_url}},
        ],
    },
]


response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model=model,
    messages=messages,
    temperature=TEMP,
    reasoning_effort="high",
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

SGLang

Serve Mistral Medium 3.5 with the SGLang library for production-ready inference.

To speed up local inference using SGLang, check out our released EAGLE model.

Installation

Day-zero support ships in dedicated docker tags:

docker pull lmsysorg/sglang:dev-mistral-medium-3.5         # H100 / H200 (Hopper, CUDA 12.9)
docker pull lmsysorg/sglang:dev-cu13-mistral-medium-3.5    # B200 / B300 (Blackwell, CUDA 13.0)

Or follow the SGLang installation guide. Requires transformers >= 5.4.0.

Serve the Model

python -m sglang.launch_server --model-path mistralai/Mistral-Medium-3.5-128B \
  --tp 8 --tool-call-parser mistral --reasoning-parser mistral

For the full deployment guide, benchmarks, and per-request examples (reasoning effort, tool calls, vision, streaming), see the SGLang cookbook entry for Mistral Medium 3.5.

Transformers

Installation

First install the Transformers framework to use Mistral Medium 3.5:

uv pip install transformers

Inference

Python Inference Snippet

import torch
from transformers import AutoProcessor, Mistral3ForConditionalGeneration


model_id = "mistralai/Mistral-Medium-3.5-128B"

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = Mistral3ForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
    model_id, device_map="auto"
)

image_url = "https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/essentialsdocs/images/7/70/Battle.png/revision/latest?cb=20220523172438"

messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {
                "type": "text",
                "text": "What action do you think I should take in this situation? List all the possible actions and explain why you think they are good or bad.",
            },
            {"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": image_url}},
        ],
    },
]

inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(messages, return_tensors="pt", tokenize=True, return_dict=True, reasoning_effort="high")
inputs = inputs.to(model.device)

output = model.generate(
    **inputs,
    max_new_tokens=1024,
    do_sample=True,
    temperature=0.7,
)[0]

# Setting `skip_special_tokens=False` to visualize reasoning trace between [THINK] [/THINK] tags.
decoded_output = processor.decode(output[len(inputs["input_ids"][0]):], skip_special_tokens=False) 
print(decoded_output)

License

This model is licensed under a Modified MIT License.

You must not use this model in a manner that infringes, misappropriates, or otherwise violates any third party’s rights, including intellectual property rights.