# Mistral Medium 2505 vs O3 Mini

As of Oct 15, 2026, Mistral Medium 2505 leads O3 Mini in 1 of 4 shared categories: Long context.

Mistral Medium 2505: price per 1M tokens is unset in the catalog.

O3 Mini: $1.9250000000000003 per 1M blended tokens.

Mistral Medium 2505: closed weights.

O3 Mini: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, O3 Mini leads Mistral Medium 2505 in General LLM at #10 against #169.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, O3 Mini leads Mistral Medium 2505 in Reasoning at #172 against #173.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 15, 2026, O3 Mini leads Mistral Medium 2505 in Science at #76 against #110.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Mistral Medium 2505 leads O3 Mini in Long context at #166 against #186.

As of Oct 15, 2026, Mistral Medium 2505 is ranked #41 in Math (since Oct 15, 2026; sources Humanity's Last Exam; methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 15, 2026, O3 Mini is a former state-of-the-art holder in Reasoning (since Feb 9, 2025; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts); methodology v1.0).