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Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Mistral Large 4

SpecGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Large 4
Respan Index44.4 (#48)45.0 (#47)
Blended price per 1M$0.75$1.05
Context window1.0M1M
Input / output per 1M$0.375 / $1.88$0.7 / $2.1
Max output66K-
Inputtext, vision, audiotext, vision
Released2026-07-212026-10-06

Respan Index by category

Each category is scored 0 to 100, and how far ahead the winner is. Leads under a point are close to even.

CategoryGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Large 4
Coding18.1 Gemini 3.6 Flash41.5 Mistral Large 4
Agents57.3 Gemini 3.6 Flash56.0 Mistral Large 4
Reasoning43.4 Gemini 3.6 Flash42.7 Mistral Large 4
Knowledge & language65.3 Gemini 3.6 Flash18.2 Mistral Large 4
Human preference54.5 Gemini 3.6 Flash54.3 Mistral Large 4

How the Respan Index works

Benchmarks both report

Gemini 3.6 Flash leads on 13 of the 20 benchmarks both report. Higher is better. Each score links to where it was published.

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMistral Large 4
Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI)42%33%
LMArena Elo14831432
LMArena WebDev (LMArena)15381544
LMArena Vision (LMArena)12821252
LMArena Agent (LMArena)-0.0445-0.0602
APEX-Agents (Mercor)46.9%51.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI)22%26.8%
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI)58.9%58.6%
Furniture Assembly (Epoch AI)23.3%20.8%
GPQA Diamond94.1%88.1%
LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench)43.4%57.2%
LiveBench Coding (LiveBench)77.9%77.2%
LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench)63%76.5%
LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench)75.4%64.8%
LiveBench Language (LiveBench)83.9%49.6%
LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench)86.4%93.6%
LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench)85.1%83.9%
Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI)30%17%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI)94.2%98.3%
SimpleQA Verified66.2%20%

FAQ

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Mistral Large 4?

Mistral Large 4 scores 45.0 on the Respan Index (#47), ahead of Gemini 3.6 Flash at 44.4 (#48). Gemini 3.6 Flash leads on 13 of the 20 benchmarks both report.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Mistral Large 4?

Gemini 3.6 Flash lists at $0.375 input and $1.88 output per 1M tokens; Mistral Large 4 at $0.7 and $2.1. Gemini 3.6 Flash is 1.4x cheaper per token at list price.

Which has the larger context window?

Gemini 3.6 Flash accepts 1.0M tokens and Mistral Large 4 1M tokens.

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