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Gemini 2.5 Ultra vs Mistral X-Large

Google DeepMind vs Mistral. Specs, benchmarks, and real per-task cost — all in one page.

Verdict

Gemini 2.5 Ultra leads on LMSYS ELO (1385 vs 1318). Mistral X-Large is ~3.5× cheaper on a 3:1 input:output blend. Mistral X-Large is open-weights, the other is proprietary.

Google DeepMind
Gemini 2.5 Ultra

2M-token context, native video understanding, and Google’s deepest multimodal stack. The long-context king.

2M context windowNative videoBest multimodal reasoning
Mistral
Mistral X-Large

European frontier model. EU-hosted inference, strong European language coverage, Apache-licensed weights.

EU data residencyMultilingual strengthOpen license
Pricing
Input / 1M$7.00$2.00
Output / 1M$21.00$6.00
Context2.0M256K
Max output64K16K
LicenseProprietaryOpen weights
Released2026-02-052026-01-28
Benchmarks
LMSYS ELO1385.01318.0
MMLU Pro90.483.5
HumanEval90.288.0
SWE-Bench58.3
MATH92.078.2
MMMU82.1
IFEval89.786.5
Per-task cost
Summarize a 1-hour meeting transcript$0.115$0.033
Review a 500-line pull request$0.098$0.028
Answer a customer support ticket$0.038$0.011
Extract structured data from a resume$0.056$0.016
Debug a stack trace with context$0.084$0.024

Per-call cost using published token counts for each task. Real-world prompts vary.