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 reads more at once: a context window of 1M tokens against 256K.
- Gemma 4 31B can be downloaded and run on your own machine; Mistral Large 4 can't.
- No independent board we follow ranks both models yet.
Side by side
The specs.
| Gemma 4 31B | Mistral Large 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Made by | Google · US | Mistral AI · France |
| Released | Apr 2, 2026 | Oct 6, 2026 |
| Price per 1M tokens | Free to download; hosts set prices | $0.68 in / $2.09 out (sale price) |
| Context window | 256K | 1M |
| Takes in | text, image, video | text, image |
| Download and run it yourself | Yes (Apache 2.0) | No |
| Size | 30.7B (dense) parameters | 1.05T parameters, 52B active |
| Maker says | “Today, we are introducing Gemma 4 — our most intelligent open models to date.” | “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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