Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Mistral Large

Gemini 3.5 Flash at $1.73 in and $10.35 out and Mistral Large at $2.30 in and $6.90 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Gemini 3.5 Flash

Google

1.7¢

for a client proposal

$1.73 in · $10.35 out / 1M

1.05M context · released 6 months ago

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Mistral Large

Mistral AI

1.7¢

for a client proposal

$2.30 in · $6.90 out / 1M

128K context · released February 2024

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 3.4¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Gemini 3.5 Flash at $1.73 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Mistral Large at $6.90 per million tokens.
Largest context: Gemini 3.5 Flash 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 3.5 Flash

0.86¢

Mistral Large

0.8¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Gemini 3.5 Flash

1.7¢

Mistral Large

1.7¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Gemini 3.5 Flash

$0.31

Mistral Large

needs 155K ctx

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Gemini 3.5 Flash

$0.07

Mistral Large

$0.09

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Gemini 3.5 Flash

$0.46

Mistral Large

needs 250K ctx

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 3.5 Flash

Mistral Large

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

Pricing

Gemini 3.5 Flash

Mistral Large

Input / 1M tokens

$1.73

$2.30

Output / 1M tokens

$10.35

$6.90

Cached input / 1M

$0.172

$0.230

Web search

1.6¢ / search

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Specs

Gemini 3.5 Flash

Mistral Large

Provider

Google

Mistral AI

Released

6 months ago

February 2024

Context window

1.05M

128K

Max output

66K

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Input

Text, Images, Video, Files, and Audio

Text and Files

Output

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Answers directly

Knowledge cutoff

2025-01-01

2024-11-30

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Gemini 3.5 Flash

Google

0.86¢

for this task

40% input · 60% output

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Mistral Large

Mistral AI

0.8¢

for this task

57% input · 43% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 1.7¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 299 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Gemini 3.5 Flash has the largest context window here — 1.05M tokens.

On price, Gemini 3.5 Flash is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 1.7¢.

If you want to watch the model think, Gemini 3.5 Flash shows reasoning; the other answers directly.

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 →

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Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash or Mistral Large?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Gemini 3.5 Flash at 1.7¢; Mistral Large at 1.7¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash — 1.05M tokens, about 1,500 pages.

Can I run Gemini 3.5 Flash and Mistral Large 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 3.4¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 3.4¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.