Side-by-side comparison of Mistral Medium 3.5 (Mistral AI · France) and Mistral Nemo (Mistral AI · France) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Mistral Medium 3.5 is rated EU-ready; Mistral Nemo is EU-ready. They part ways on licence: Mistral Medium 3.5 is "Modified MIT", Mistral Nemo is "Apache 2.0".
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| Verdict | 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. | EU-ready A 12B model from Paris-based Mistral AI, co-trained with NVIDIA and shipped under Apache 2.0 with a 128k context window and strong coverage of major EU languages. EU-headquartered vendor plus a fully permissive licence make this one of the cleanest open-weight choices for organisations prioritising AI Act and GDPR alignment, with the main caveat being the usual lack of detail on the training corpus. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-05-03 | 2026-05-19 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Modified MIT | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Permitted (revenue cap) | Unrestricted |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed corpus |
| Origin | EU (France) | EU (France) |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 39/100 | — |
| Speed | 162 tok/s | — |
| Blended price | $3.00/M | — |
| Context window | — | — |
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