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Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash 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 Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5
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Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score53.519.3
Input Price$1.50/M$1.50/M
Output Price$9.00/M$7.50/M
Context Window1,048,576262,144
Max Output65,536209,715
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index53.823.4

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemini 3.5 FlashMistral: Mistral Medium 3.5
SQL Generation 139 133
Code Review 142 130
Code Completion 119 115
Code Refactoring 144 131
Bug Fixing 146 134
Unit Test Generation 130 124
Code Documentation 134 126
Regex Writing 123 120
CI/CD Pipelines 126 120
Frontend Component Design 128 124
Data Analysis 132 127
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 128
ETL Scripting 135 125
JSON Extraction 121 122
Bulk Data Labeling 118 119
OCR / Document Parsing 133 129
Table Extraction from PDFs 133 129
Long-Document Summarization 145 132
Short-Form Summarization 116 115
Blog Post Writing 127 121

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

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