Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning) vs Mistral Small 3.1

Which is better for the money: Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning) by Google or Mistral Small 3.1 by Mistral? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-25.

Clear winner

GoogleGemma 4 E4B (Reasoning)On the open-weights frontier

Intelligence: 8.90
Total cost: $14.7

MistralMistral Small 3.1Off the frontier

Intelligence: 7.10
Total cost: $27.8

Verdict

Pick Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning)

Mistral Small 3.1 vs Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning): 20.2% less intelligence, 89.5% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 79.6% faster end-to-end.

Metric	Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning)	Mistral Small 3.1	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	8.9	7.1	−20.2% Mistral Small 3.1 is 20.2% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$14.68	$27.82	+89.5% Mistral Small 3.1 is 89.5% more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	57.72s	11.78s	−79.6% Mistral Small 3.1 is 79.6% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.02 / $0.10	$0.08 / $0.14
Input modalities	Text, Image, Speech, Video	Text, Image

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Low) scores 21.50 for $10.6.
Mistral Small 3.1 is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Low) scores 21.50 for $10.6.

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