Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Mistral Large 3

Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash and Mistral AI's Mistral Large 3 compared on specs, pricing, and capabilities — as configured in AI Crucible ensembles.

Mistral Large 3 input tokens are 1.5x cheaper than Gemini 3.8 Flash ($0.60 vs $0.90 per 1M tokens).
Mistral Large 3 output tokens are 2.5x cheaper than Gemini 3.8 Flash ($1.80 vs $4.50 per 1M tokens).
Gemini 3.8 Flash offers the larger context window: 1M tokens vs 256K tokens for Mistral Large 3.
Gemini 3.8 Flash is a reasoning model that spends extra tokens thinking before answering; Mistral Large 3 responds directly.

Specification	Gemini 3.8 Flash	Mistral Large 3
Provider	Google	Mistral AI
API model ID	gemini-3.8-flash	mistral-large-latest
Description	Google's most intelligent Flash model, engineered for long-horizon software engineering with 1M context.	Mistral AI's flagship model with 41B active parameters, excelling at complex reasoning and multimodal tasks.
Context window	1M tokens	256K tokens
Max output tokens	65,536	8,192
Input cost ($/1M tokens)	$0.90	$0.60
Output cost ($/1M tokens)	$4.50	$1.80
Cache read cost ($/1M tokens)	$0.09	-
Latency	low	medium
Reasoning model	Yes	No
Vision (image input)	Yes	Yes
Tool use	Yes	Yes