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Mistral-Medium-3.5-128B

Mistral AI · reasoning checkpoint

No base checkpoint is public; the card calls the release "our first flagship merged model", handling instruction-following, reasoning, and coding in a single set of weights.

Open in the comparison table Hugging Face ↗ Blog ↗

KV calculations use one sequence at 131,072 tokens and 16-bit cache elements. They include bounded sliding-window caches. This is retained cache payload, not peak prefill memory. The comparison table also offers sourced mixed-precision layouts, including quantization scales.

Release

Released

2026-04-29

Source: blog · AI Governance; Mistral Medium 3.0 family; Model Lifecycle table
Mistral Medium 3.5 model version general purpose ai model April 29, 2026

Date the weights (or, if earlier, the technical report) were first made public, YYYY-MM-DD, as dated by the publisher. A Hugging Face repository creation date is used only when no dated publisher page exists, with a note.

License

other (Modified MIT License)

Source: model-card · README.md; License
This model is licensed under a [Modified MIT License](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-Medium-3.5-128B/blob/main/LICENSE).

Card front matter: license: other.

License of the released weights as declared by the publisher (model card metadata or license file), e.g. apache-2.0, mit, or the name of a custom license.

Input modalities

text + image

Source: model-card · README.md; Key Features
Multimodal input: Accepts both text and image input, with text output.

Input modalities of the released checkpoint as the publisher states them, from: text, image, video, audio, joined with ' + ' in that order ("text", "text + image + video").

Parameters

Total params

128B parameters

Source: model-card · README.md; Key Features
Dense 128B parameters

Total parameter count as reported by the publisher. See params.note for whether embeddings, MTP heads or vision towers are included.

Active params

128B parameters

Inferred from the source; see the explanation below.

Source: model-card · README.md; Key Features
Dense 128B parameters

Dense model: every parameter is active.

Parameters used per token in the forward pass, as reported by the publisher.

Active non-embedding (stated)

Not disclosed

Active parameters excluding the input embedding and the output head (unembedding). Stated by the publisher, or computed from params.active by subtracting vocab × d_model for each of the embedding and output head that params.active is stated to include (basis inferred, note with the arithmetic). Not disclosed when the scope of params.active is not stated.

Counted total params

125B parameters

Calculated: embedding + output head + all experts + other weights, mistralai/Mistral-Medium-3.5-128B@22b2b86 safetensors headers; reproduces stated total (other modalities) and active (with embedding and output head)

Parameters of the text backbone counted from the released checkpoint's safetensors headers (embedding, output head, all experts and other weights; excluding MTP modules, vision/audio towers and n-gram lookup tables). Shown only when the counts reproduce the publisher's stated total and active parameters within 5% under some scope.

Counted embedding + head

3.221B parameters

Calculated: input embedding + output head, mistralai/Mistral-Medium-3.5-128B@22b2b86 safetensors headers

Input embedding plus output head (once if tied), counted from the checkpoint.

Non-emb. params (counted)

121.8B parameters

Calculated: dense + routed backbone weights; excludes input embedding, output head, lookup tables, MTP and other modalities, mistralai/Mistral-Medium-3.5-128B@22b2b86 safetensors headers; reproduces stated total (other modalities) and active (with embedding and output head)

Language backbone weights excluding input embeddings, output head, lookup/Engram tables, MTP modules and vision/audio towers. Equals params.counted_total minus params.counted_embedding. Same validation as params.counted_total.

Largest layer (counted)

1.384B parameters

Calculated: max(sum of dense and routed weights sharing a full layers.<index> tensor path), all experts included, mistralai/Mistral-Medium-3.5-128B@22b2b86 safetensors headers

Largest group of language-backbone weights sharing a full layers.<index> tensor path, including every routed expert. Excludes lookup/Engram tables, embeddings, output head, MTP and other modalities. Hybrid checkpoints may store mixers and FFNs as separate layers. All-gather volume also depends on wrapping, sharding and dtype.

Active non-emb. (counted)

121.8B parameters

Calculated: all weights except embedding and output head, mistralai/Mistral-Medium-3.5-128B@22b2b86 safetensors headers; reproduces stated total (other modalities) and active (with embedding and output head)

Active parameters per token excluding the input embedding and output head, counted from the checkpoint as all non-expert weights plus routed-expert weights × top_k / experts. Same validation as params.counted_total.

Shape

Layers

88

Source: config · /text_config/num_hidden_layers

Number of transformer blocks in the main backbone (attention or token mixer plus FFN), excluding MTP modules.

d_model

12,288

Source: config · /text_config/hidden_size

Residual stream width.

Vocab

131,072

Source: config · /text_config/vocab_size

Embedding table rows (vocab_size in config, may include padding).

Tied embeddings

No

Source: config · /text_config/tie_word_embeddings

Input embedding and output head share weights.

d_model / layers

139.636

Calculated: d_model / layers

Width-to-depth ratio, d_model divided by the number of blocks.

Attention

Token mixers

GQA

Inferred from the source; see the explanation below.

Source: code · modeling_ministral3.py; Ministral3Attention.__init__
self.k_proj = nn.Linear(config.hidden_size, config.num_key_value_heads * self.head_dim, bias=False)

96 query heads share 8 KV heads.

Token-mixing layer types in the backbone, e.g. GQA, MLA, SWA, Gated DeltaNet, Mamba-2, DSA (DeepSeek sparse attention).

Global-attention layers

88

Source: config · /text_config/num_hidden_layers

/text_config/sliding_window is null, so every block uses full causal attention.

Layers whose KV cache grows with full context (dense or sparse global attention, MLA). Excludes sliding-window and linear/recurrent layers.

Query heads

96

Source: config · /text_config/num_attention_heads

Query heads in the global-attention layers.

KV heads

8

Source: config · /text_config/num_key_value_heads

Key/value heads in the global-attention layers. Not applicable to MLA, whose cache is a shared latent.

Heads × head dim

12,288

Calculated: heads × head_dim

attn.heads × attn.head_dim, the query projection width of global layers.

Q heads / KV head

12

Calculated: heads / kv_heads

attn.heads divided by attn.kv_heads in global layers.

QK head dim

128

Source: config · /text_config/head_dim

Query/key dimension per head in global-attention layers (for MLA, nope + rope dims).

Positional encoding

RoPE

Source: code · modeling_ministral3.py; Ministral3Attention.forward
query_states, key_states = apply_rotary_pos_emb(query_states, key_states, cos, sin)

Positional scheme in global layers: RoPE, partial RoPE, NoPE, or mixed per layer type.

RoPE base

1,000,000

Source: config · /text_config/rope_parameters/rope_theta

RoPE base frequency of the global layers at release.

QK norm

No

Source: code · modeling_ministral3.py; Ministral3Attention.forward
query_states = self.q_proj(hidden_states).view(hidden_shape).transpose(1, 2)

Q and K go from the projections straight to RoPE; no per-head norm.

Queries and keys are normalized per head before the dot product.

QKV bias

No

Source: code · modeling_ministral3.py; Ministral3Attention.__init__
self.q_proj = nn.Linear(config.hidden_size, config.num_attention_heads * self.head_dim, bias=False)

Query/key/value projections have bias terms.

Feed-forward

Activation

SwiGLU

Source: code · modeling_ministral3.py; Ministral3MLP.forward
down_proj = self.down_proj(self.act_fn(self.gate_proj(x)) * self.up_proj(x))

Config /text_config/hidden_act is silu.

FFN activation (SwiGLU, GeGLU, ...).

Dense FFN dim

28,672

Source: config · /text_config/intermediate_size

Intermediate width of the dense FFN layers that are actually executed.

FFN bias

No

Source: code · modeling_ministral3.py; Ministral3MLP.__init__
self.gate_proj = nn.Linear(self.hidden_size, self.intermediate_size, bias=False)

FFN projections have bias terms.

Dense FFN / d_model

2.33333

Calculated: ffn.dim / d_model

ffn.dim divided by shape.d_model.

Multi-token prediction

MTP depth

Not disclosed

Additional future tokens predicted during pretraining (0 when the model was trained without MTP).

Normalization and stability

Norm

RMSNorm

Source: code · modeling_ministral3.py; Ministral3DecoderLayer.__init__
self.input_layernorm = Ministral3RMSNorm(config.hidden_size, eps=config.rms_norm_eps)

Normalization layer type in the blocks.

Norm placement

pre

Source: code · modeling_ministral3.py; Ministral3DecoderLayer.forward
hidden_states = self.input_layernorm(hidden_states)

Pre-norm, post-norm, or sandwich (pre and post).

Norm epsilon

1e-05

Source: config · /text_config/rms_norm_eps

Epsilon of the block normalization layers.

Context length

Pretraining context

Not disclosed

Sequence length of the main pretraining stage.

Trained context

Not disclosed

Longest sequence length trained on after context extension.

Advertised context

262.1K tokens

Source: model-card · README.md; Key Features
256k context length

Longest context the publisher says the model supports, possibly beyond trained length via RoPE scaling.

Extension method

YaRN factor 64 over original 4,096 (release config)

Source: config · config.json; text_config.rope_parameters
"factor": 64.0, "llama_4_scaling_beta": 0, "mscale": 1.0, "mscale_all_dim": 0.0, "original_max_position_embeddings": 4096,

Training-time context stages are not disclosed; mscale_all_dim was corrected from 1.0 in commit c4be198. Same dict: rope_type/type yarn, beta_fast 4, beta_slow 1; llama_4_scaling_beta 0 disables the query length scaling.

How context was extended (stages, RoPE base change, YaRN factor).

Pretraining recipe

Pretraining tokens

Not disclosed

Tokens seen in pretraining including annealing and context extension, as reported.

Optimizer

Not disclosed

Optimizer used for the bulk of parameters.

Peak LR

Not disclosed

Peak learning rate of the main pretraining stage.

Final LR

Not disclosed

Learning rate at the end of the decay.

LR schedule

Not disclosed

Learning-rate schedule shape with phase boundaries.

Warmup

Not disclosed

Warmup length in steps or tokens.

Batch size

Not disclosed

Global batch size, including any batch-size ramp: sequences × sequence length (token total), or the token total alone when only that is stated.

Weight decay

Not disclosed

Decoupled weight decay coefficient.

Adam betas

Not disclosed

(beta1, beta2) of the Adam-family optimizer or its AdamW fallback.

Grad clip

Not disclosed

Global gradient-norm clipping threshold.

Training precision

Not disclosed

Matmul precision of pretraining (BF16, FP8 recipe, NVFP4 recipe) with the scaling granularity where disclosed. Never inferred from the released checkpoint dtype.

KV cache

KV bytes / token

360,448 bytes

Calculated: kv.bytes_at_context / 131072 tokens; uniform BF16, payload only; quantization overhead excluded. Global KV: 88 × (2048 × 16/8) B/entry

Retained KV cache divided by context length, including bounded SWA caches and indexer keys. Exports use uniform BF16 at 131,072 tokens. The website can select uniform payload precision (no quantization overhead) or sourced component formats (including scales and documented padding). This is cache payload, not peak prefill memory or persistent prefix storage.

Global KV bytes / token

360,448 bytes

Calculated: 360448 B / 1 tokens (Global KV); uniform BF16, payload only; quantization overhead excluded. Global KV: 88 × (2048 × 16/8) B/entry

Long-context global KV bytes per token, including indexer keys; excludes bounded SWA caches. Compression rates and cross-layer cache reuse are included. Exports use uniform BF16; the website's storage selector also applies here. This is the field to compare with global-KV figures in reports, using the matching storage recipe.

KV bytes / token / B active

2,816 bytes

Calculated: kv.bytes_per_token (131072 tokens) / (params.active / 1e9); uniform BF16, payload only; quantization overhead excluded. Global KV: 88 × (2048 × 16/8) B/entry

kv.bytes_per_token divided by active parameters in billions (131,072 tokens in exports).

KV at context / B active

369,098,752 bytes

Calculated: kv.bytes_at_context (131072 tokens) / (params.active / 1e9); uniform BF16, payload only; quantization overhead excluded. Global KV: 88 × (2048 × 16/8) B/entry

kv.bytes_at_context divided by active parameters in billions (131,072 tokens in exports).

KV at context

47,244,640,256 bytes

Calculated: 360448 B × 131072 (Global KV); uniform BF16, payload only; quantization overhead excluded. Global KV: 88 × (2048 × 16/8) B/entry

Retained KV cache for one sequence at the selected context, including SWA windows and indexer keys. Exports use uniform BF16 at 131,072 tokens. Excludes recurrent state, compressor tail state, draft/MTP caches, temporary prefill tensors, allocator metadata and persistent prefix snapshots. Does not estimate peak prefill or total serving memory.

Evaluations

AA Intelligence Index

14

Source: leaderboard · Artificial Analysis model page /models/mistral-medium-3-5, Wayback snapshot 2026-10-19
Mistral Medium 3.5 scores 14 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Variant: Mistral Medium 3.5. Index v4.3.2.

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2 of the post-trained model, from a dated Wayback snapshot of its Artificial Analysis page. The note names the variant (reasoning setting).

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