Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite vs Mistral Small 4

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite from Google and Mistral Small 4 from Mistral AI, side by side. Every figure comes from the model registry. No markup on model usage: you pay the provider's list price.

Side-by-side comparison of Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, Mistral Small 4

Attribute	Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite	Mistral Small 4
Provider	Google	Mistral AI
Model id	google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite	mistral/mistral-small-2603
Status	Available via Safeguard	Available via Safeguard
Input / 1M tokens	$0.30	$0.15
Output / 1M tokens	$2.50	$0.60
Price notes	Paid tier, same input price for text, image, video and audio, output includes thinking tokens.	Standard tier. Cached input $0.015.
Context	1.05M	256K
Parameters	Not published	Not published
Max output	65,536 tokens	Not published
Modality	Text and image	Text and image
Weights	Closed	Open
Zero data retention	Not offered	Available
Prompts go to	Google (Gemini Developer API)	Mistral AI (global endpoint by default)
Retention	Paid tier: prompts and responses not used to improve Google products, but logged for a limited period for abuse monitoring, free tier content may be used to improve products	Commercial terms: no training on customer data unless opted in, with exceptions, Studio Free mode may train on inputs and outputs (opt-out available), pay-as-you-go can opt out, ZDR available on pay-as-you-go for stateless endpoints
Region	No region guarantee, data may be stored transiently or cached in any country where Google operates. Google points ZDR and enterprise processing needs to Vertex AI (Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform)	Global by default, optional EU or US regional inference endpoints at 1.1x pricing
Price checked	2026-10-08	2026-10-08

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