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Comparison · 2 models · Updated Oct 4, 2026

Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Gemini 2.5 Pro

Gemini 2.5 Pro comes out ahead, 63 to 55 on our weighted score, though Mistral Medium 3.5 is 13% cheaper per token.

  1. Mistral AI

    Mistral Medium 3.5

    Released Apr 29, 2026

    55/100
    • ECI141.4
    • Price$1.50 / $7.50
    • Context262K
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    Gemini 2.5 Pro

    Released Jun 17, 2025

    63/100
    • ECI145.3
    • Price$1.25 / $10.00
    • Context1.05M
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01 — Verdict

Gemini 2.5 Pro is our pick

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the better all-round choice, scoring 63/100 against Mistral Medium 3.5 (55). It leads on capability, inputs & features and context window. Mistral Medium 3.5 wins on price. The score weighs capability 50%, price 25%, inputs & features 15%, context window 10%.

  • CapabilityGemini 2.5 ProCapabilities Index (ECI): Gemini 2.5 Pro 145.3 · Mistral Medium 3.5 141.4
  • Lowest priceMistral Medium 3.5Mistral Medium 3.5 $3.00 · Gemini 2.5 Pro $3.44 per 1M tokens (3:1 blend)
  • Longest contextGemini 2.5 ProGemini 2.5 Pro 1,048,576 · Mistral Medium 3.5 262,144 tokens
  • Widest inputsGemini 2.5 ProMistral Medium 3.5: Text, Images · Gemini 2.5 Pro: Text, Images, PDFs, Audio, Video
  • Self-hostingMistral Medium 3.5Publishes downloadable weights
How the score is built
MeasureWeightMistral Medium 3.5Gemini 2.5 Pro
CapabilityCapabilities Index (ECI)50%6772
Price25%2724
Inputs & features15%70100
Context window10%3761
Overall100%55/10063/100
02 — Side by side

Every spec in one table

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Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Gemini 2.5 Pro specifications side by side
SpecificationMistral Medium 3.5Mistral AIGemini 2.5 ProGoogle
Capability
Capabilities Index (ECI)141.4145.3 (best)
ECI rank#95 of 148#78 of 148 (best)
GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions—85.3%
FrontierMath Tiers 1–3Research-level mathematics—24.6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025Competition mathematics—84.7%
SWE-bench VerifiedFixing real GitHub issues—57.6%
Price per million tokens
Input$1.50$1.25 (best)
Output$7.50 (best)$10.00
Cached input$0.15$0.125 (best)
Blended (3:1)$3.00 (best)$3.44
Long-context rateSame rateOver 200K: $2.50 / $15.00
Price sourceOfficial Mistral APIOfficial Google API
Limits
Context window262,144 tokens1,048,576 tokens (best)
Max output262,144 tokens (best)65,536 tokens
Inputs and features
TextYesYes
ImagesYesYes
PDFsNoYes
AudioNoYes
VideoNoYes
ReasoningYeshighYes
Tool callingYesYes
Structured outputYesYes
Availability
WeightsOpenProprietary
API model IDmistral-medium-2604gemini-2.5-pro
API providers1222 (best)
ReleasedApr 29, 2026Jun 17, 2025
Knowledge cutoff—Jan 2025
03 — Cost

What would a month cost?

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  • Mistral Medium 3.5$30.00
  • Gemini 2.5 Pro$32.50
04 — Questions

Which should you choose?

Which is better: Mistral Medium 3.5 or Gemini 2.5 Pro?

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the better all-round choice, scoring 63/100 against Mistral Medium 3.5 (55). It leads on capability, inputs & features and context window. Mistral Medium 3.5 wins on price. The score weighs capability 50%, price 25%, inputs & features 15%, context window 10%.

Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium 3.5 or Gemini 2.5 Pro?

Mistral Medium 3.5 is cheaper at $1.50 input / $7.50 output per million tokens (official Mistral API price). Gemini 2.5 Pro costs $1.25 input / $10.00 output per million tokens (official Google API price). At a typical mix of three input tokens to one output token, that is $3.00 per million tokens for Mistral Medium 3.5 versus $3.44 for Gemini 2.5 Pro (1.1× as much).

Which scores higher on benchmarks?

Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher on the Capabilities Index (ECI): Gemini 2.5 Pro 145.3 (#78 of 148) and Mistral Medium 3.5 141.4 (#95 of 148). The confidence ranges of the top two overlap (143.6–146.9 vs 138.4–143.7), so treat the gap as small.

Which is better for coding?

There are no published SWE-bench Verified results for Mistral Medium 3.5 yet, so there is no like-for-like coding score. On overall capability, Gemini 2.5 Pro leads, which tends to carry over to coding, but test on your own codebase. Both support tool calling for agent workflows.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Pro has the largest context window at 1,048,576 tokens, against 262,144 for Mistral Medium 3.5. Maximum output per response: Mistral Medium 3.5 up to 262,144, Gemini 2.5 Pro up to 65,536 tokens.

Which can read images, PDFs, audio or video?

Mistral Medium 3.5 accepts text and images; Gemini 2.5 Pro accepts text, images, PDFs, audio and video. Gemini 2.5 Pro handles the widest range of inputs.

Are any of these open source?

Mistral Medium 3.5 publishes its weights and can be self-hosted; Gemini 2.5 Pro is proprietary.

Which is newer?

Mistral Medium 3.5 is the newest, released Apr 29, 2026. Gemini 2.5 Pro came out Jun 17, 2025. Knowledge cutoff: Gemini 2.5 Pro Jan 2025.

How do you decide the winner?

Each model gets a 0–100 score on capability (50%, independent benchmark results); price (25%, blended price per million tokens (3 input : 1 output), log scale); inputs & features (15%, image, PDF, audio and video input, tool calling, structured output and reasoning); context window (10%, maximum tokens per request, log scale). Dimensions missing for any model are dropped and the remaining weights rescaled, so every model is judged on the same evidence. Specs and prices come from public model listings and the labs’ own API pages; capability scores come from independent benchmark runs. Data updated Oct 4, 2026.

05 — Keep comparing

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