Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Mistral Large 4
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Data updated on October 23, 2026· 222 models
Gemini 3.6 Flash is a high-efficiency model from Google for coding, agentic workflows, and web and app development.
- Reasoning estimated
- Speed estimated
- ▲
- Input
- Output
- Context
- 1 M tokens
- Max output
- 66 K
- Input, $ per 1M tokens
- ▲$0.750
- Output, $ per 1M tokens
- ▲$3.75
- Cache read, $ per 1M
- $0.075
- Batch (input / output)
- $0.375 / $1.88
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Released
- 07/21/2026
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2026-03
- API id
- google/gemini-3.6-flash
Mistral Large 4 is a frontier multimodal (text and image input) model from Mistral AI built for reasoning, coding, and agentic workloads.
- Reasoning estimated
- ▲
- Speed estimated
- Input
- Output
- Context
- 1 M tokens
- Max output
- ▲262 K
- Input, $ per 1M tokens
- $1.36
- Output, $ per 1M tokens
- $4.18
- Cache read, $ per 1M
- $0.140
- Batch (input / output)
- —
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Released
- ▲10/06/2026
- Knowledge cutoff
- —
- API id
- mistralai/mistral-large-4-0
Which is the better API choice: Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Mistral Large 4?
- Gemini 3.6 Flash: cheapest input (45% less than Mistral Large 4)
- Gemini 3.6 Flash: cheapest output
- Mistral Large 4: the newest (10/06/2026)
- Mistral Large 4: most reasoning (estimated)
- Gemini 3.6 Flash: the fastest (estimated)
Gemini 3.6 Flash costs 45% less on input and 10% less on output than Mistral Large 4 ($0.750 / $3.75 versus $1.36 / $4.18 per million tokens). All accept 1 M tokens of context. On capabilities, only Gemini 3.6 Flash accepts audio. Gemini 3.6 Flash offers a batch tier at half price for jobs that do not need an immediate answer.
What would your product cost?
Estimate the monthly cost with your app's real volume. List prices, no cache or batch discounts.
With Gemini 3.6 Flash you save $10.87 a month versus Mistral Large 4 (29% less).
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Paste your prompt: tokens and cost per model
Rough estimate (about 4 characters per token). Nothing is sent to any server.
Cost of sending it 1,000 times (input only)
- 1Claude Haiku 5.5 Anthropic$0.008
- 2Gemini 3.6 Flash Google$0.057
- 3Mistral Large 4 Mistral$0.103
- 4Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic$0.152
- 5Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic$0.152
- 6Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic$0.304
- 7Claude Opus 5 Anthropic$0.380
- 8Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic$0.760
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Frequently asked questions
Which is the better API choice: Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Mistral Large 4?
Gemini 3.6 Flash costs 45% less on input and 10% less on output than Mistral Large 4 ($0.750 / $3.75 versus $1.36 / $4.18 per million tokens). All accept 1 M tokens of context. On capabilities, only Gemini 3.6 Flash accepts audio. Gemini 3.6 Flash offers a batch tier at half price for jobs that do not need an immediate answer.
Which is cheaper: Gemini 3.6 Flash and Mistral Large 4?
Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper: $0.750 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, versus $1.36 / $4.18 for Mistral Large 4.
Which has more context: Gemini 3.6 Flash and Mistral Large 4?
Gemini 3.6 Flash and Mistral Large 4 accept the same context: 1 M tokens.
Which is newer: Gemini 3.6 Flash and Mistral Large 4?
Mistral Large 4 was released on 10/06/2026; Gemini 3.6 Flash on 07/21/2026.
What would 10,000 requests a month cost with Gemini 3.6 Flash and Mistral Large 4?
With 1,500 input and 400 output tokens per request: Gemini 3.6 Flash: $26.25; Mistral Large 4: $37.12 a month, at list price.
Where do the prices come from and how often are they updated?
From the public catalogs of OpenRouter, models.dev and LiteLLM, which publish each provider's list prices. They sync once a day and the last update date is shown above the comparison.
What does price per million tokens mean?
It is what the provider charges per million tokens you send (input) or the model generates (output). A token is roughly 4 characters. Output almost always costs more than input.
Sources: OpenRouter, models.dev and LiteLLM. Prices in USD per million tokens, list price, no volume discounts. Prompt tokens are an estimate; each provider's tokenizer may differ.