Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 vs Mistral Medium 3.5

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 at $1.44 in and $11.50 out and Mistral Medium 3.5 at $1.73 in and $8.63 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06

Google

1.6¢

for a client proposal

$1.44 in · $11.50 out / 1M

1.05M context · released May 2025

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Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral AI

1.6¢

for a client proposal

$1.73 in · $8.63 out / 1M

262K context · released 6 months ago

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 3.2¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 at $1.44 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Mistral Medium 3.5 at $8.63 per million tokens.
Largest context: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 at 1.05M tokens — about 1,500 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06

0.86¢

Mistral Medium 3.5

0.78¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06

1.6¢

Mistral Medium 3.5

1.6¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06

$0.27

Mistral Medium 3.5

$0.30

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06

$0.06

Mistral Medium 3.5

$0.07

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06

$0.77

Mistral Medium 3.5

$0.46

Long-context rate applied at this input size.

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

Drag the slider to adjust the split between input and output workload.

80% Input20% Output

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06

Mistral Medium 3.5

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06

Mistral Medium 3.5

Input / 1M tokens

$1.44

$1.73

Output / 1M tokens

$11.50

$8.63

Cached input / 1M

$0.144

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Web search

1.6¢ / search

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Specs

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06

Mistral Medium 3.5

Provider

Google

Mistral AI

Released

May 2025

6 months ago

Context window

1.05M

262K

Max output

66K

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Input

Text, Images, Files, Audio, and Video

Text, Images, and Files

Output

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

2025-01-31

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Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06

Google

0.86¢

for this task

33% input · 67% output

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Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral AI

0.78¢

for this task

44% input · 56% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 1.6¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 305 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 has the largest context window here — 1.05M tokens.

On price, Mistral Medium 3.5 is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 1.6¢.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 pricing →Mistral Medium 3.5 pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 or Mistral Medium 3.5?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Mistral Medium 3.5 at 1.6¢; Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 at 1.6¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 — 1.05M tokens, about 1,500 pages.

Can I run Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 and Mistral Medium 3.5 side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 3.2¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 3.2¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.