Mistral Large 4 → Gemini 2.5 Flash: cost per request on six tasks
Gemini 2.5 Flash costs 2–54% less than Mistral Large 4 per request on six common tasks. It costs no more per result that works if its results work first time at least 46% as often as Mistral Large 4's on search re-ranking, and 99% as often on translation.
List prices per million tokens
| Model | Input | Cached input | Output |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral Large 4 | $0.70 | $0.07 | $2.10 |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | $0.30 | $0.03 | $2.50 |
Prices checked 2026-11-12.
Cost per 1,000 requests
| Task | Mistral Large 4 | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Change | Cheaper per result that works if it works first time at least |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support bot answerInstructions, three help-centre passages and the customer's question in; a short answer out. | $2.73 | $1.65 | 40% less | 61% as often as Mistral Large 4 |
| Invoice field extractionInstructions and one invoice's text in; about 15 fields as JSON out. | $2.28 | $1.38 | 40% less | 61% as often as Mistral Large 4 |
| Lead scoringScoring rules and one lead's form answers in; a score and a one-line reason out. | $1.05 | $0.61 | 42% less | 59% as often as Mistral Large 4 |
| Email reply draftInstructions and the email thread so far in; a reply of about 300 words out. | $1.89 | $1.45 | 23% less | 77% as often as Mistral Large 4 |
| TranslationInstructions and about 500 words of text in; the same text in another language out. | $2.31 | $2.27 | 2% less | 99% as often as Mistral Large 4 |
| Search re-rankingA search query and 20 result snippets in; the ids of the best five, in order, out. | $2.91 | $1.33 | 54% less | 46% as often as Mistral Large 4 |
Token counts are typical sizes, not measurements.
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