Side-by-side comparison of MiniCPM5-1B (OpenBMB) and Mistral Medium 3.5 (Mistral AI · France) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. MiniCPM5-1B is rated conditional; Mistral Medium 3.5 is EU-ready. They part ways on licence: MiniCPM5-1B is "Apache 2.0", Mistral Medium 3.5 is "Modified MIT".
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| Verdict | Conditional Per the published Apache 2.0 LICENSE, the 1.08B-parameter weights carry no use restrictions and are well suited to on-device or edge deployments. Unusually for a Chinese-origin release, OpenBMB ships a full data card naming every pre-training and SFT corpus, which closes the AI Act Art. 53 transparency gap most peers leave open. The remaining hedge for regulated EU buyers is vendor jurisdiction (Tsinghua-affiliated lab, mainland China) — self-host the weights and treat any vendor-side service as out of scope. | EU-ready Per Mistral's published license, Mistral Medium 3.5 ships under a Modified MIT License: vanilla-MIT terms for independent developers, startups and most enterprises, with a revenue-threshold carve-out that routes large companies back to a paid commercial agreement. Paris-headquartered vendor with EU jurisdiction end to end and a 256k-token context. Training-data composition is not published in the model card — usual caveat for high-assurance public-sector deployments. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-05-30 | 2026-05-03 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Apache 2.0 | Modified MIT |
| Commercial use | Unrestricted | Permitted (revenue cap) |
| Training data | Documented | Undisclosed |
| Origin | China | EU (France) |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | — | 39/100 |
| Speed | — | 162 tok/s |
| Blended price | — | $3.00/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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