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Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vs Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5
Vendorgooglemistralai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-19.3
Input Price$0.25/M$1.50/M
Output Price$1.50/M$7.50/M
Context Window1,048,576262,144
Max Output65,536209,715
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index-23.4

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteMistral: Mistral Medium 3.5
SQL Generation 133 133
Code Review 132 130
Code Completion 131 115
Code Refactoring 136 131
Bug Fixing 136 134
Unit Test Generation 124 124
Code Documentation 131 126
Regex Writing 119 120
CI/CD Pipelines 120 120
Frontend Component Design 122 124
Data Analysis 124 127
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 128
ETL Scripting 128 125
JSON Extraction 131 122
Bulk Data Labeling 129 119
OCR / Document Parsing 131 129
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 129
Long-Document Summarization 137 132
Short-Form Summarization 123 115
Blog Post Writing 121 121

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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