Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Mistral Large 4

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Data updated on November 14, 2026· 230 models

GoogleFlash Preview

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is a high speed, high value thinking model designed for agentic workflows, multi turn chat, and coding assistance.

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Reasoning estimated
Speed estimated
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Input
Output
Context
1 M tokens
Max output
66 K
Input, $ per 1M tokens
▲$0.500
Output, $ per 1M tokens
$3.00
Cache read, $ per 1M
$0.050
Batch (input / output)
$0.250 / $1.50
Tool calling
Yes
Released
12/17/2025
Knowledge cutoff
2025-01
API id
google/gemini-3-flash-preview
MistralLarge 4

Mistral Large 4 is a frontier multimodal (text and image input) model from Mistral AI built for reasoning, coding, and agentic workloads.

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Reasoning estimated
▲
Speed estimated
Input
Output
Context
1 M tokens
Max output
▲262 K
Input, $ per 1M tokens
$0.700
Output, $ per 1M tokens
▲$2.10
Cache read, $ per 1M
$0.070
Batch (input / output)
—
Tool calling
Yes
Released
▲10/06/2026
Knowledge cutoff
—
API id
mistralai/mistral-large-4-0
Third model (optional)
text image audio video PDF / file reasoning (1 to 5, estimated by family) speed (1 to 4, estimated by family)▲ best value among the selected

Which is the better API choice: Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Mistral Large 4?

  • Gemini 3 Flash Preview: cheapest input (29% less than Mistral Large 4)
  • Mistral Large 4: cheapest output
  • Mistral Large 4: the newest (10/06/2026)
  • Mistral Large 4: most reasoning (estimated)
  • Gemini 3 Flash Preview: the fastest (estimated)

Pricing is split: Gemini 3 Flash Preview wins on input and Mistral Large 4 wins on output. All accept 1 M tokens of context. On capabilities, only Gemini 3 Flash Preview accepts audio. Gemini 3 Flash Preview 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.

Gemini 3 Flash Preview
$19.50/mo
Mistral Large 4
$18.90/mo

With Mistral Large 4 you save $0.60 a month versus Gemini 3 Flash Preview (3% less).

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  3. 3Qwen3.7 Flash Qwen$0.97
  4. 4DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek$1.57
  5. 5DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 DeepSeek$1.85
  6. 6Ministral 3 3B 2512 Mistral$1.90

Paste your prompt: tokens and cost per model

Rough estimate (about 4 characters per token). Nothing is sent to any server.

76tokens approx.287 characters

Cost of sending it 1,000 times (input only)

  1. 1Claude Haiku 5.5 Anthropic$0.008
  2. 2Gemini 3 Flash Preview Google$0.038
  3. 3Mistral Large 4 Mistral$0.053
  4. 4Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic$0.152
  5. 5Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic$0.304
  6. 6Claude Opus 5 Anthropic$0.380
  7. 7Claude Fable 5.2 Anthropic$0.608
  8. 8Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic$0.760

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Frequently asked questions

Which is the better API choice: Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Mistral Large 4?

Pricing is split: Gemini 3 Flash Preview wins on input and Mistral Large 4 wins on output. All accept 1 M tokens of context. On capabilities, only Gemini 3 Flash Preview accepts audio. Gemini 3 Flash Preview offers a batch tier at half price for jobs that do not need an immediate answer.

Which is cheaper: Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Mistral Large 4?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is cheaper: $0.500 per million input tokens and $3.00 per million output tokens, versus $0.700 / $2.10 for Mistral Large 4.

Which has more context: Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Mistral Large 4?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Mistral Large 4 accept the same context: 1 M tokens.

Which is newer: Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Mistral Large 4?

Mistral Large 4 was released on 10/06/2026; Gemini 3 Flash Preview on 12/17/2025.

What would 10,000 requests a month cost with Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Mistral Large 4?

With 1,500 input and 400 output tokens per request: Gemini 3 Flash Preview: $19.50; Mistral Large 4: $18.90 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.