Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Google: Gemini Pro Latest
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 | Google: Gemini Pro Latest | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | mistralai | |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 53.0 | - |
| Input Price | $1.50/M | $2.00/M |
| Output Price | $7.50/M | $10.00/M |
| Context Window | 262,144 | 1,048,576 |
| Max Output | 209,715 | 943,718 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | ✓ |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 49.4 | - |
| ai_index_agentic | 31.3 | - |
| ai_index_coding | 77.4 | - |
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 Pro Latest costs $4.50, so Mistral Medium 3.5 is about 1.3 times cheaper for the same work.
Gemini Pro Latest 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 Pro Latest offers audio input and video input.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher on 19 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), Gemini Pro Latest on 1 (Code Completion).
Pick Mistral Medium 3.5 if you need lower cost or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Gemini Pro Latest if you need long documents, audio input or video input.
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 Pro Latest |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 153 | 132 |
| Code Review | 147 | 132 |
| Code Completion | 116 | 117 |
| Code Refactoring | 144 | 136 |
| Bug Fixing | 155 | 136 |
| Unit Test Generation | 140 | 124 |
| Code Documentation | 131 | 129 |
| Regex Writing | 128 | 117 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 132 | 120 |
| Frontend Component Design | 137 | 122 |
| Data Analysis | 151 | 124 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 142 | 132 |
| ETL Scripting | 138 | 128 |
| JSON Extraction | 134 | 121 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 123 | 118 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 139 | 131 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 139 | 131 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 141 | 136 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 119 | 113 |
| Blog Post Writing | 129 | 120 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →