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Mistral: Mistral Small 4 vs Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview

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

	Mistral: Mistral Small 4	Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
Vendor	mistralai	google
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	3.8	-
Input Price	$0.15/M	$0.25/M
Output Price	$0.60/M	$1.50/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	9.6	-

Who wins by task?

Task	Mistral: Mistral Small 4	Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
SQL Generation	132	133
Code Review	128	132
Code Completion	129	131
Code Refactoring	129	136
Bug Fixing	132	136
Unit Test Generation	122	124
Code Documentation	127	131
Regex Writing	120	119
CI/CD Pipelines	118	120
Frontend Component Design	123	122
Data Analysis	125	124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	128	133
ETL Scripting	123	128
JSON Extraction	131	131
Bulk Data Labeling	129	129
OCR / Document Parsing	128	131
Table Extraction from PDFs	128	131
Long-Document Summarization	131	137
Short-Form Summarization	124	123
Blog Post Writing	120	121

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