Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 | Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | mistralai | |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 53.0 | 74.7 |
| Input Price | $1.50/M | $2.00/M |
| Output Price | $7.50/M | $12.00/M |
| Context Window | 262,144 | 1,048,576 |
| Max Output | 209,715 | 65,536 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | ✓ |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 49.4 | 76.7 |
| ai_index_agentic | 31.3 | 35.3 |
| ai_index_coding | 77.4 | 100.0 |
| eqbench | - | 64.7 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Mistral Medium 3.5 costs $3.38 and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview costs $5.00, so Mistral Medium 3.5 is about 1.5 times cheaper for the same work.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview reads up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Mistral Medium 3.5.
Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview offers audio input and video input.
On our blended benchmark score Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads 74.7 to 53.0.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher on 1 (Bulk Data Labeling), Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview on 19 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
Mistral Medium 3.5 was released in April 2026 and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview in February 2026.
Pick Mistral Medium 3.5 if you need lower cost; pick Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview if you need long documents, audio input, video input, benchmark performance or the stronger all-round task scores.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 | Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 153 | 168 |
| Code Review | 147 | 168 |
| Code Completion | 116 | 120 |
| Code Refactoring | 144 | 168 |
| Bug Fixing | 155 | 177 |
| Unit Test Generation | 140 | 154 |
| Code Documentation | 131 | 144 |
| Regex Writing | 128 | 133 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 132 | 145 |
| Frontend Component Design | 137 | 145 |
| Data Analysis | 151 | 164 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 142 | 155 |
| ETL Scripting | 138 | 156 |
| JSON Extraction | 134 | 137 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 123 | 123 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 139 | 147 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 139 | 147 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 141 | 163 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 119 | 121 |
| Blog Post Writing | 129 | 140 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →