Gemini 3 Pro is Google’s flagship frontier model for high-precision multimodal reasoning, combining strong performance across text, image, video, audio, and code with a 1M-token context window. Reasoning Details must be preserved when using…
Model details →Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview vs Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct
Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Mixtral 8x7B Instruct is a pretrained generative Sparse Mixture of Experts, by Mistral AI, for chat and instruction use. Incorporates 8 experts (feed-forward networks) for a total of 47 billion parameters. Instruct model fine-tuned by Mist…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview | Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 1.0M | 33K | 🏆 Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $2.00 | $0.54 | 🏆 Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $12.00 | $0.54 | 🏆 Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct |
| 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 Pro Preview |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | Yes | — | 🏆 Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview |
Frequently asked questions
Is Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview better than Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct?
Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview and Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct?
Input: $2.00 vs $0.54 per 1M tokens. Output: $12.00 vs $0.54 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview and Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct support?
Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview supports up to 1.0M tokens. Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct supports up to 33K tokens.
Do both Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview and Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct support tool calling?
Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview: yes. Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct: yes.