Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 vs Mistral Small 3.1 24B
Mistral Small 3.1 24B costs 18.0x less per output token than Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 ($0.555 vs $10.00 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; no benchmark has tested both models yet.
- Coding
- No data
- Overall
- No data
- Output $/M
- $10.00
- Coding
- No data
- Overall
- No data
- Output $/M
- $0.555
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 or Mistral Small 3.1 24B: which to pick
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 for a larger context window (1.05M against 128K tokens).
No benchmark has tested both yet. Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 has results on Aider polyglot, LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) and LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run); Mistral Small 3.1 24B on LMArena Text: coding, LMArena Text: software and IT and LMArena Text: hard prompts. Compare them on price and context instead.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Neither has a coding score yet.
One side not measured
Long documents
Listed context window
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 takes 1.05M tokens against 128K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Mistral Small 3.1 24B
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 $0.0063, Mistral Small 3.1 24B $0.0006 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 not benchmarked, Mistral Small 3.1 24B not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- None yet: no category has been tested on both models.
- Widest single gap
- None yet: no benchmark has tested both models.
- Output price
- Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 $10.00 against Mistral Small 3.1 24B $0.555 per million output tokens, 18.0x apart.
- Context window
- Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 takes 1.05M tokens, Mistral Small 3.1 24B 128K.
Benchmark by benchmark
Every board either model has a result on, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale. Only one model is measured on each, so no row names a leader.
CodingDirectional onlySix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index7 boards measured
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | 83.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 79.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 77.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| GSO-Bench | 3.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1309 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1301 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| SciCode | 7.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 32 boards here | |||
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index3 boards measured
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| METR time horizons | 55.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| Remote Labor Index | 0.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| DeepResearch Bench | 42.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 38 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10 boards measured
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 83.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 19.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 84.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| SimpleBench | 62.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| VPCT | 46.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1278 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1257 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1290 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | Not measured | 1119 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | Not measured | 1158 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards measured
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1261 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1271 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index5 boards measured
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 85.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1265 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1267 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1271 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1257 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index26 boards measured
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 91.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1277 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1263 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1252 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Vision | Not measured | 1136 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1295 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1255 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1253 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1266 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1208 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1207 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1273 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1284 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1263 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1242 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1270 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1299 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1268 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1250 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | Not measured | 1157 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | Not measured | 1155 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | Not measured | 1132 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | Not measured | 1142 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Vision: captioning | Not measured | 1153 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | Not measured | 1155 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | Not measured | 1123 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 20 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Mistral Small 3.1 24B costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Mistral Small 3.1 24B costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Mistral Small 3.1 24B costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Google Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Mistral AI | |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | June 5, 2025 | March 17, 2025 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 128K |
| Input $/Mtok | $1.25 | $0.351 |
| Output $/Mtok | $10.00 | $0.555 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 better than Mistral Small 3.1 24B for coding?
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 for a larger context window (1.05M against 128K tokens).
Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 or Mistral Small 3.1 24B?
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 costs $1.25 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens; Mistral Small 3.1 24B costs $0.351 and $0.555. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 or Mistral Small 3.1 24B?
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.
Has any benchmark tested both Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 and Mistral Small 3.1 24B?
No benchmark has tested both yet. Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 has results on Aider polyglot, LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) and LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run); Mistral Small 3.1 24B on LMArena Text: coding, LMArena Text: software and IT and LMArena Text: hard prompts. Compare them on price and context instead. Data as of October 21, 2026.