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Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Mistral Small 4

Side-by-side API economics and benchmarks. Per-1M input and output rates, context window, and verified metrics.

Tale of the tape

Head-to-head specs pulled from each model profile.

Metric Gemini 2.5 Flash Mistral Small 4
Input cost / 1M $0.30 $0.15
Output cost / 1M $2.50 $0.60
Context window 1,000,000 tokens
MMLU score

Cost verdict

Enter monthly input and output volumes to see total cost savings.

Gemini 2.5 Flash

Input: 1M × $0.30 = $0.30
Output: 1M × $2.50 = $2.50
Total
$2.80

Mistral Small 4

Input: 1M × $0.15 = $0.15
Output: 1M × $0.60 = $0.60
Total
$0.75

Total cost savings

$2.05

Mistral Small 4 saves $2.05 per month vs the other model at this volume.

Model routing savings

Uses this page's verified rates. Gemini 2.5 Flash is the premium route (higher combined per-1M cost); Mistral Small 4 handles routine traffic.

Premium model

Gemini 2.5 Flash

$0.30 in · $2.50 out / 1M

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Economical model

Mistral Small 4

$0.15 in · $0.60 out / 1M

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All premium

Gemini 2.5 Flash

$140.00

100% of input and output on the premium route

Routed stack

80%Mistral Small 4

Gemini 2.5 Flash

$58.00

Routine slice
$30.00
Premium slice
$28.00

Monthly savings

$82.00

58.6% lower

Rates pulled from this page's model database entries (gemini-2-5-flash, mistral-small-4) — same per-1M input/output figures as Tale of the tape. Production routing needs quality gates and monitoring.

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