In short
How they differ.
Worked out from the figures below. Prices and specs are the makers' own, read Oct 20, 2026.
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper per output token: $2.50 against $7.50 per million tokens, so Mistral Medium 3.5 costs 3 times as much.
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite reads more at once: a context window of 1M tokens against 256K.
- Mistral Medium 3.5 can be downloaded and run on your own machine; Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite can't.
- No independent board we follow ranks both models yet.
Side by side
The specs.
| Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | Mistral Medium 3.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Made by | Google · US | Mistral AI · France |
| Released | Jul 21, 2026 | Apr 28, 2026 |
| Price per 1M tokens | $0.30 in / $2.50 out | $1.50 in / $7.50 out |
| Context window | 1M | 256K |
| Takes in | text, image, video, audio, pdf | text, image |
| Download and run it yourself | No | Yes (Modified MIT) |
| Size | Not published | 128B (dense) parameters |
| Maker says | “Our fastest, most cost-effective 3.5 model for high-throughput execution.” | “Our frontier-class multimodal model optimized for agentic and coding use cases.” |
| 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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