Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 vs Gemini 3.5 Flash
Compare Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 by Mistral AI against Gemini 3.5 Flash by Google AI, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Gemini 3.5 Flash has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is 30x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
Input
$0.10
15× cheaper
Output
$0.30
30× cheaper
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Input
$1.50
Output
$9.00
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is cheaper on both — 15× input, 30× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
35%
Gemini 3.5 Flash uses 18.4x more headings
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
Gemini 3.5 Flash
50%Vocabulary59%
17wSentence Length18w
0.56Hedging0.16
4.3Bold4.4
5.7Lists3.0
0.00Emoji0.00
0.05Headings0.89
0.34Transitions0.11
Based on 21 + 27 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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