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AI labs compared · October 2026

Google vs Mistral AI: which AI lab is ahead?

Each lab's best model on sale goes head to head on every kind of work we measure, from our own benchmarks and licensed sources. 28 models in all; a lab is only as good as the model you would actually pick from it.

16 models on sale with our resultsGoogle Best: Gemini 3.8 Flash · newest: Gemini 3.8 Flash
12 models on sale with our resultsMistral AI Best: Mistral Large 4 · newest: Mistral Large 4
Google wins 7Mistral AI wins 2

Kinds of work led by each lab's best model there, of the 9 both are measured on.

Results as of 8 October 2026 (catalogue release 2026-10-08-4199ce0620fe). Models on sale means listed on OpenRouter today.

Google or Mistral AI? The short answer

Google is ahead: its best models beat Mistral AI's in 7 of the 9 kinds of work both are measured on; Mistral AI leads in 2.

  • Pick Google for product listings, decks from an analysis, marketing planning, reasoning and knowledge, writing, sticking to the facts and speed under pressure.
  • Pick Mistral AI for user surveys and agents and tool use.
  • On our overall leaderboard, Gemini 3.8 Flash is #8 (61 of 100) and Mistral Large 4 is #17 (37).
  • Prices start at $0.062 per million tokens for Google (Gemma 3 4B) and $0.058 for Mistral AI (Mistral Small 3).

Head to head

61Gemini 3.8 Flash
Best Spring Prompt overall score
37Mistral Large 4
40.9Gemini 3.8 Flash
Best Intelligence Index
38.4Mistral Large 4
$3.00Gemini 3.8 Flash
Flagship price, per million tokens
$2.06Mistral Large 4
$0.062Gemma 3 4B
Cheapest model, per million tokens
$0.058Mistral Small 3
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Models on sale with our results
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Each line names the model behind the number. Prices are blended, three input tokens to one output, at the developer's list price where we have read it; see every model's price. Intelligence Index from Artificial Analysis; overall score from our leaderboard.

Which lab is better for what

For each kind of work, each lab's best model there and its rank among every model on sale. Further right is better; the better rank is in green.

Product listingsTurning a sparse product feed and photos into listings that can go live 8 of 20Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview 14 of 20Mistral Medium 3.5
Decks from an analysisTurning a finished analysis into a deck you could present as it is 12 of 19Gemini 3.8 Flash 16 of 19Mistral Medium 3.5
User surveysPlanning a user survey and reading its results without being misled 5 of 8Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview 4 of 8Mistral Large 4
Marketing planningPlanning a year of ad spend without overspending 7 of 19Gemini 3.8 Flash 10 of 19Mistral Large 4
Agents and tool useMulti-step tasks with tools: support desks, coding agents, function calls 29 of 164Gemini 3.7 Flash 21 of 164Mistral Large 4
Professional workReal tasks from banking, consulting and law, business documents and freelance projects 11 of 51Gemini 3.8 Flash not measured
Reasoning and knowledgeHard questions across science, maths and general knowledge 12 of 198Gemini 3.8 Flash 44 of 198Mistral Large 4
WritingWhat people prefer in blind comparisons, and judged writing quality 2 of 188Gemini 3.8 Flash 86 of 188Mistral Medium 3.5
Sticking to the factsSummarising without inventing things, and factual answers 1 of 152Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite 9 of 152Mistral Small 3
Speed under pressureGood decisions against a real clock (fast chess) 2 of 22Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite 8 of 22Mistral Medium 3.5

Every model, by intelligence and price

Each dot is a model on sale with an Intelligence Index from Artificial Analysis. Up is smarter; left is cheaper. Hover or tap a dot for its name.

GoogleMistral AI

01020304050 $0.01$0.1$1$10 Price per million tokens, blended (log scale) Intelligence Index Gemini 3.8 FlashGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGemini 3.7 FlashGemini 3.6 FlashGemini 3.5 FlashMistral Large 4

On our overall leaderboard

The 5 of their models we rank overall: one score out of 100 across everything we publish (how the score works). Only models with enough of our own results are ranked.

  1. #8Gemini 3.8 Flash61
  2. #10Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview50
  3. #17Mistral Large 437
  4. #19Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite27
  5. #20Mistral Medium 3.518

Benchmark by benchmark

The headline result of every benchmark both labs have models on: each lab's best model and its rank among the models on sale. Green marks the better rank.

MeasureGoogleMistral AI
Agents and tool use
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) V4 · Overall accuracy · BFCL% correct, higher is better 56.2%Gemini 2.5 Flash · 8 of 3837.7%Mistral Medium 3 · 21 of 38
Artificial Analysis · Terminal-Bench 4.0% of tasks, higher is better 19.7%Gemini 3.8 Flash · 23 of 10526.8%Mistral Large 4 · 17 of 105
Artificial Analysis · Terminal-Bench 2.1% of tasks, higher is better 87.6%Gemini 3.8 Flash · 8 of 11550.6%Mistral Medium 3.5 · 58 of 115
Artificial Analysis · τ-bench banking% of tasks, higher is better 45.8%Gemini 3.8 Flash · 10 of 11315.1%Mistral Medium 3.5 · 57 of 113
Decks from an analysis
DeckBench · Deck ratingrating, higher is better 894Gemini 3.8 Flash · 12 of 19646Mistral Medium 3.5 · 16 of 19
Marketing planning
ROASBench · Overall scorescore out of 100, higher is better 51.4Gemini 3.8 Flash · 7 of 1937.0Mistral Large 4 · 10 of 19
Product listings
CatalogBench · Reliably publish-ready% of products, higher is better 44.6%Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview · 8 of 2017.9%Mistral Medium 3.5 · 16 of 20
CatalogBench · Reliably publish-ready · sales brief% of products, higher is better 16.1%Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview · 8 of 2010.7%Mistral Medium 3.5 · 9 of 20
Reasoning and knowledge
Artificial Analysis · Artificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score, higher is better 40.9Gemini 3.8 Flash · 21 of 19838.4Mistral Large 4 · 29 of 198
Artificial Analysis · Humanity's Last Exam% of questions, higher is better 47.9%Gemini 3.7 Flash · 12 of 19735.0%Mistral Large 4 · 54 of 197
Artificial Analysis · GPQA Diamond% of questions, higher is better 95.3%Gemini 3.8 Flash · 2 of 18776.9%Mistral Small 4 · 112 of 187
Speed under pressure
BulletBench · Ladder Elo · Lightning 10+1ladder Elo, higher is better 892Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite · 1 of 14571Mistral Small 4 · 4 of 14
BulletBench · Ladder Elo · Bullet 60sladder Elo, higher is better 1,068Gemini 3.8 Flash · 1 of 20572Mistral Medium 3.5 · 6 of 20
Sticking to the facts
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard · Hallucination rate · Vectara% of summaries, lower is better 3.3%Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite · 2 of 795.1%Mistral Small 3 · 6 of 79
Arena (formerly LMArena) · Overall · Text factualityArena rating, higher is better 1,477Gemini 3.7 Flash · 12 of 1131,434Mistral Large 3 · 71 of 113
User surveys
SurveyBench · Analysis ratingrating, higher is better 810Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview · 5 of 8815Mistral Large 4 · 4 of 8
Writing
Arena (formerly LMArena) · Overall · TextArena rating, higher is better 1,495Gemini 3.8 Flash · 6 of 1661,427Mistral Medium 3.5 · 73 of 166
UGI Leaderboard · Writing score · UGIscore out of 100, higher is better 78.6Gemini 3.8 Flash · 1 of 13845.5Mistral Medium 3.5 · 68 of 138

Their models, one against one

Quick answers

Is Google or Mistral AI better?

Google is ahead: its best models beat Mistral AI's in 7 of the 9 kinds of work both are measured on; Mistral AI leads in 2.

What is Google's best model?

Gemini 3.8 Flash: #8 on the Spring Prompt overall leaderboard and 40.9 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

What is Mistral AI's best model?

Mistral Large 4: #17 on the Spring Prompt overall leaderboard and 38.4 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

Which is better for agents and tool use, Google or Mistral AI?

Mistral AI: its best model there, Mistral Large 4, ranks 21 of 164 models on sale, against 29 for Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash.

Which is better for reasoning and knowledge, Google or Mistral AI?

Google: its best model there, Gemini 3.8 Flash, ranks 12 of 198 models on sale, against 44 for Mistral AI's Mistral Large 4.

Which is better for writing, Google or Mistral AI?

Google: its best model there, Gemini 3.8 Flash, ranks 2 of 188 models on sale, against 86 for Mistral AI's Mistral Medium 3.5.

Which is cheaper, Google or Mistral AI?

Mistral AI's cheapest model with results, Mistral Small 3, costs $0.058 per million tokens (three input to one output), against $0.062 for Gemma 3 4B from Google.

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