Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 vs Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Compare Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 by Mistral AI against Gemini 3 Flash Preview by Google AI, tested across 55 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Gemini 3 Flash Preview has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is 10x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
Input
$0.10
5.0× cheaper
Output
$0.30
10× cheaper
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Input
$0.50
Output
$3.00
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is cheaper on both — 5.0× input, 10× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
53%
Gemini 3 Flash Preview uses 17.4x more headings
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
50%Vocabulary55%
17wSentence Length18w
0.56Hedging0.42
4.3Bold7.1
5.7Lists4.5
0.00Emoji0.00
0.05Headings0.84
0.34Transitions0.07
Based on 21 + 24 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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