Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.8 Flash and Mistral Nemo?

Mistral Nemo has the lowest input price. Per 1M input tokens: Gemini 3.8 Flash from $0.75 and Mistral Nemo from $0.03.

Which has the larger context window, Gemini 3.8 Flash and Mistral Nemo?

Gemini 3.8 Flash has the largest context window: Gemini 3.8 Flash 1,048,576 tokens and Mistral Nemo 131,072 tokens.

Which is smarter, Gemini 3.8 Flash and Mistral Nemo?

Gemini 3.8 Flash scores highest on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index: Gemini 3.8 Flash 30.5 and Mistral Nemo 5.2.

Can I switch between Gemini 3.8 Flash and Mistral Nemo without changing my code?

Yes. All of them are served through FastRouter's OpenAI-compatible API, so switching is a change of the model parameter (google/gemini-3.8-flash, mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407).

Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Mistral Nemo

Side-by-side pricing per provider, context window, benchmark scores and speed, all on one OpenAI-compatible API.

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Gemini 3.8 Flash Googlegoogle/gemini-3.8-flash

Mistral Nemo MistralAImistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407

Creator

Google

MistralAI

Released

Sep 2, 2026

Jul 19, 2024

Context window

1.05M

131K

Max output

66K

16K

Input / 1MLowest provider price

$0.75

$0.03

Output / 1MLowest provider price

$3.75

$0.03

Providers

IntelligenceArtificial Analysis index

30.5

5.2

LatencyMedian time to first token

—

3.3s

ThroughputMedian tokens per second

—

<1 t/s

Accepts

Text, Image, Audio, Video, Files

Text

Produces

Text

Tool calling

Yes

Structured output

Yes

Reasoning

Yes

Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Mistral Nemo: summary

Gemini 3.8 Flash and Mistral Nemo are both available through FastRouter's OpenAI-compatible API, so switching between them is a change of model id, not a new integration.

Gemini 3.8 Flash, from Google, has a 1,048,576-token context window, costs from $0.75/1M input and $3.75/1M output tokens across 2 providers and scores 30.5 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

Mistral Nemo, from MistralAI, has a 131,072-token context window, costs $0.03/1M input and $0.03/1M output tokens and scores 5.2 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

Mistral Nemo is the cheapest on input, 25× cheaper than the next model, Gemini 3.8 Flash has the largest context window and Gemini 3.8 Flash scores highest for intelligence.

Switch with one line

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.fastrouter.ai/api/v1", api_key="<FASTROUTER_API_KEY>") client.chat.completions.create(model="google/gemini-3.8-flash", messages=[...]) # or client.chat.completions.create(model="mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407", messages=[...])

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