In short
How they differ.
Worked out from the figures below. Prices and specs are the makers' own, read Oct 20, 2026.
- Mistral Large 4 is cheaper per output token: $2.09 against $2.50 per million tokens, so Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite costs 1.2 times as much.
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite reads more at once: a context window of 1M tokens against 1M.
- No independent board we follow ranks both models yet.
Side by side
The specs.
| Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | Mistral Large 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Made by | Google · US | Mistral AI · France |
| Released | Jul 21, 2026 | Oct 6, 2026 |
| Price per 1M tokens | $0.30 in / $2.50 out | $0.68 in / $2.09 out (sale price) |
| Context window | 1M | 1M |
| Takes in | text, image, video, audio, pdf | text, image |
| Download and run it yourself | No | No |
| Size | Not published | 1.05T parameters, 52B active |
| Maker says | “Our fastest, most cost-effective 3.5 model for high-throughput execution.” | “Mistral Large 4 is a state-of-the-art, open-weight, general-purpose multimodal model with a granular Mixture-of-Experts” |
| Sources | Prices, Oct 20, 2026 · Description | Prices, Oct 20, 2026 · Description |
Independent tests
Where they place.
None of the boards we follow lists either model yet.
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