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Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)
Vendormistralaigoogle
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score19.350.9
Input Price$1.50/MFree
Output Price$7.50/MFree
Context Window262,144262,144
Max Output209,71532,768
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index23.427.5
eqbench-70.0

Who wins by task?

TaskMistral: Mistral Medium 3.5Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)
SQL Generation 133 139
Code Review 130 140
Code Completion 115 131
Code Refactoring 131 141
Bug Fixing 134 144
Unit Test Generation 124 129
Code Documentation 126 134
Regex Writing 120 125
CI/CD Pipelines 120 125
Frontend Component Design 124 128
Data Analysis 127 132
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 128 133
ETL Scripting 125 133
JSON Extraction 122 132
Bulk Data Labeling 119 130
OCR / Document Parsing 129 131
Table Extraction from PDFs 129 131
Long-Document Summarization 132 143
Short-Form Summarization 115 126
Blog Post Writing 121 127

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

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