Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Mistral Medium 3.5
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
Google · May 2026
Google's I/O 2026 headliner: near-Pro intelligence at Flash speed, 78.8% on SWE-bench Verified with full multimodal input.
Mistral AI · Mar 2026
Europe's strongest model line: frontier-adjacent quality at $0.40/$2 with EU data residency and on-prem options.
The verdict
These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. On price the gap is dramatic: Mistral Medium 3.5 works out roughly 4.2x cheaper per blended million tokens. Gemini 3.5 Flash also takes 1M of context versus 131K for Mistral Medium 3.5.
Specs & pricing
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | Mistral Medium 3.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $1.5 | $0.4 |
| Output price / 1M | $9 | $2 |
| Context window | 1M | 131K |
| Max output | 66K | — |
| Open weights | no | no |
| Reasoning model | yes | no |
| Multimodal input | text, image, audio, video | text, image |
| Knowledge cutoff | Feb 2026 | Dec 2025 |
| Released | May 2026 | Mar 2026 |
| Example monthly cost* | $28.50 | $7.00 |
* 10M input + 1.5M output tokens per month at list prices, no caching. Green = better value on that row.
Frequently asked questions
- Which is better, Gemini 3.5 Flash or Mistral Medium 3.5?
- These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. On price the gap is dramatic: Mistral Medium 3.5 works out roughly 4.2x cheaper per blended million tokens. Gemini 3.5 Flash also takes 1M of context versus 131K for Mistral Medium 3.5.
- Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash or Mistral Medium 3.5?
- Gemini 3.5 Flash costs $1.5/$9 per million input/output tokens, while Mistral Medium 3.5 costs $0.4/$2. For a typical workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month, that's $28.50 versus $7.00.
- Which model is better for coding, Gemini 3.5 Flash or Mistral Medium 3.5?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.