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Google: Gemini 3.5 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 3.5 Flash Lite Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5
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Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score34.219.3
Input Price$0.30/M$1.50/M
Output Price$2.50/M$7.50/M
Context Window1,048,576262,144
Max Output65,536209,715
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index36.623.4

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteMistral: Mistral Medium 3.5
SQL Generation 138 133
Code Review 139 130
Code Completion 132 115
Code Refactoring 141 131
Bug Fixing 143 134
Unit Test Generation 128 124
Code Documentation 134 126
Regex Writing 123 120
CI/CD Pipelines 124 120
Frontend Component Design 126 124
Data Analysis 129 127
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 128
ETL Scripting 133 125
JSON Extraction 131 122
Bulk Data Labeling 129 119
OCR / Document Parsing 132 129
Table Extraction from PDFs 132 129
Long-Document Summarization 143 132
Short-Form Summarization 125 115
Blog Post Writing 126 121

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

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