Google Gemini API vs Mistral La Plateforme pricing
Both are in llm apis. Google Gemini API is billed per token; Mistral La Plateforme is billed per token. Numbers below are copied from each vendor's pricing page.
Google Gemini APIFree tier or trial
- Free tier
- Free tier on Flash models: ~1,500 req/day, 250k TPM (Pro models paid-only since Apr 2026)
- Billed
- Per token
- Best for
- Multimodal, long-context, GCP-backed
- Verified
- Jun 27, 2026
Mistral La PlateformeFree tier or trial
- Free tier
- Free Experiment tier, rate-limited (~1B tokens/mo cap), all models
- Billed
- Per token
- Best for
- Open-weight European LLMs
- Verified
- Jun 27, 2026
Google Gemini API plans
| Plan | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier (AI Studio) | $0 | Free access to Gemini models via Google AI Studio with rate/quota limits; data may be used to improve products. |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | $0.10 / $1.50 in/out per 1M | Lowest-cost tier; output $0.40 on the Developer API. Batch halves it to $0.05/$0.20. |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | $0.30 / $2.50 in/out per 1M | Cost-efficient workhorse with 1M context; Batch $0.15/$1.25; caching $0.03 per 1M + $1.00/hr storage. |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro | $1.25 / $10.00 in/out per 1M | High-reasoning tier; rises to $2.50/$15.00 for prompts over 200K tokens. Batch $0.625/$5.00. |
| Grounding / tools add-on | $35 per 1,000 prompts | Google Search grounding after free tier; Maps grounding $25 per 1,000 prompts. |
- Restrictive quotas/rate limits on free and lower paid tiers cause friction
- Intelligence Index sits mid-pack rather than top-of-class vs. similarly-priced reasoning models
- Free-tier inputs may be used to improve Google products, a data-privacy concern for some teams
Mistral La Plateforme plans
| Plan | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Mistral Large 3 (mistral-large-latest) | $0.50 / $1.50 per 1M tokens | Flagship general model, input/output |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 (mistral-medium-latest) | $1.50 / $7.50 per 1M tokens | Highest-tier multimodal model |
| Mistral Small 4 (mistral-small-latest) | $0.15 / $0.60 per 1M tokens | Efficient mid-size model |
| Ministral 3 - 3B (ministral-3b-latest) | $0.10 / $0.10 per 1M tokens | Cheapest edge/small model |
| Codestral (codestral-latest) | $0.30 / $0.90 per 1M tokens | Code-completion model |
| Free Experiment tier + Batch API | $0 free tier; 50% off batch | ~1B tokens/month rate-limited eval tier; 50% batch discount on all production rates (24h SLA) |
Source: https://mistral.ai/pricing/