Gemini 3.1 Pro vs Mistral Medium 3.5
Pricing & Specs

Google (Gemini) vs Mistral, side by side from a live registry. Specs below, then benchmark both on your own task.

$12
Gemini 3.1 Pro output / 1M
$7.5
Mistral Medium 3.5 output / 1M
1.04858M / 128K
context windows

TL;DR: On a typical task (1K input + 500 output tokens), Mistral Medium 3.5 is about 1.5x cheaper than Gemini 3.1 Pro. But per-token price is not cost per result: a cheaper model that needs more tokens, retries, or hand-holding can end up more expensive on your workload. The specs below are facts; which one is better at YOUR task is measurable, not guessable.

API Pricing: Gemini 3.1 Pro vs Mistral Medium 3.5

TokensGemini 3.1 ProMistral Medium 3.5
Input$2 / 1M$1.5 / 1M
Output$12 / 1M$7.5 / 1M
Cached input$0.2 / 1M- / 1M

What that means in practice (1K input + 500 output tokens)

1x One typical task: $0.0080 on Gemini 3.1 Pro vs $0.0052 on Mistral Medium 3.5
1K 1,000 runs: $8.00 vs $5.25
💡 Real cost depends on how verbose each model is on YOUR prompts. Benchmark to measure actual tokens, not estimates.

Specs Compared

SpecGemini 3.1 ProMistral Medium 3.5
Context window1.04858M tokens128K tokens
Max output tokens65.536K tokens-
Input modalitiestext, image, video, audio, PDFtext, image
Knowledge cutoff--
Latency (measured)-~171ms median response
Reasoning modelYesNo
Tool / function callingYesYes
JSON modeYesYes
Prompt cachingYesNo

When to Choose Which

High volume on a budget: start with Mistral Medium 3.5; only pay for Gemini 3.1 Pro if the benchmark shows a quality gap that matters.
Long documents or big codebases: Gemini 3.1 Pro has the larger context window (1.04858M vs 128K tokens).
Multi-step reasoning tasks: Gemini 3.1 Pro is a reasoning model; expect better step-by-step work at the cost of more output tokens.
Everything else: the honest answer is to benchmark both on your actual task. Quality differences are task-specific and shift with every release.

FAQ

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.1 Pro or Mistral Medium 3.5?

Gemini 3.1 Pro costs $2/$12 per 1M input/output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.5 costs $1.5/$7.5. On a typical task (1K input + 500 output tokens), Mistral Medium 3.5 is about 1.5x cheaper than Gemini 3.1 Pro.

Which has the bigger context window, Gemini 3.1 Pro or Mistral Medium 3.5?

Gemini 3.1 Pro has a 1.04858M-token context window; Mistral Medium 3.5 has 128K tokens.

Is Gemini 3.1 Pro better than Mistral Medium 3.5?

It depends on the task. Generic leaderboards won't tell you which one wins on YOUR workload. OpenMark lets you benchmark Gemini 3.1 Pro and Mistral Medium 3.5 head to head on your own task with real API calls, no API keys needed, free tier available.

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