Gemini 3 Flash Preview is a high speed, high value thinking model designed for agentic workflows, multi turn chat, and coding assistance. It delivers near Pro level reasoning and tool use performance with substantially lower latency than la…
Model details →Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Mistral: Mixtral 8x22B Instruct
Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview wins on 5 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Mistral's official instruct fine-tuned version of [Mixtral 8x22B](/models/mistralai/mixtral-8x22b). It uses 39B active parameters out of 141B, offering unparalleled cost efficiency for its size. Its strengths include: - strong math, coding,…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Mistral: Mixtral 8x22B Instruct | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 1.0M | 66K | 🏆 Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $0.50 | $2.00 | 🏆 Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $3.00 | $6.00 | 🏆 Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | Yes | — | 🏆 Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | Yes | — | 🏆 Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
Frequently asked questions
Is Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview better than Mistral: Mixtral 8x22B Instruct?
Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview wins on 5 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Mistral: Mixtral 8x22B Instruct?
Input: $0.50 vs $2.00 per 1M tokens. Output: $3.00 vs $6.00 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Mistral: Mixtral 8x22B Instruct support?
Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview supports up to 1.0M tokens. Mistral: Mixtral 8x22B Instruct supports up to 66K tokens.
Do both Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Mistral: Mixtral 8x22B Instruct support tool calling?
Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview: yes. Mistral: Mixtral 8x22B Instruct: yes.