Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools is a variant of Gemini 3.1 Pro that improves tool selection behavior by preventing overuse of a general bash tool when more efficient third-party or user-defined functions are available. This specialized …
Model details →Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools vs Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct
Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools 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 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools | 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 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools |
| 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 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | Yes | — | 🏆 Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools |
Frequently asked questions
Is Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools better than Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct?
Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools 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 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools and Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct support?
Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools supports up to 1.0M tokens. Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct supports up to 33K tokens.
Do both Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools and Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct support tool calling?
Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools: yes. Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct: yes.