Google: Gemini 4 Argon (batch) vs Mistral: Mistral Large 4

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Mistral Large 4 costs $1.20 and Gemini 4 Argon (batch) costs $2.25, so Mistral Large 4 is about 1.9 times cheaper for the same work.

Both read up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text.

Only Gemini 4 Argon (batch) offers audio input and video input.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Gemini 4 Argon (batch) scores higher on 16 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), Mistral Large 4 on 4 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others).

Pick Gemini 4 Argon (batch) if you need audio input, video input or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Mistral Large 4 if you need lower cost.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.