Head-to-Head Model Comparison

Gemma 4 31B vs Mistral Small 4

Benchmarks, API Token Pricing, Context Window & Speed Comparison

Verificato dal team di ricerca di GetInfoUsUltima verifica: October 2026Politica editoriale

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Gemma 4 31B

Ragionamento a Pesi Aperti

Gemma 4 31B di Google è un modello di IA progettato per il ragionamento Chain-of-Thought a pesi aperti ad alta efficienza algoritmica, con finestra di contesto da 262K, velocità di 80 token/s, indice di intelligenza di 81/100 e tariffa di a

Intelligence Index81 / 100

Input Token:

$0.00 / 1M

Output Token:

$0.00 / 1M

Context Window:

262.1K tokens

SWE-bench Verified:

68.5%

Mistral AI

Mistral Small 4

Inferenza Ultra-Rapida

Mistral Small 4 di Mistral AI è un modello di IA progettato per le interazioni in tempo reale a bassissima latenza e il routing ad alto volume, con finestra di contesto da 256K, velocità di 120 token/s, indice di intelligenza di 48/100 e ta

Intelligence Index48 / 100

Input Token:

$0.10 / 1M

Output Token:

$0.30 / 1M

Context Window:

256K tokens

SWE-bench Verified:

44.5%

Differenze Chiave a Colpo d’Occhio

Gemma 4 31B is 1.0x cheaper for API usage (input + output tokens combined).
Gemma 4 31B has a larger context window (262K vs 256K tokens).
Mistral Small 4 is faster at 120 tok/s vs 80 tok/s.
Gemma 4 31B leads on SWE-bench coding (68.5% vs 44.5%).

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Feature	Gemma 4 31B	Mistral Small 4
Intelligence Index Composite reasoning & knowledge score (0-100)	81	48
Provider	Google	Mistral AI
Input Price Cost per million input tokens	$0.00 / 1M	$0.10 / 1M
Output Price Cost per million output tokens	$0.00 / 1M	$0.30 / 1M
Blended Price Weighted 7:2:1 cache:input:output per 1M	$0.00 / 1M	$0.07 / 1M
Context Window Maximum input + output tokens	262.1K tokens~393 A4 pages of text	256K tokens~384 A4 pages of text
Max Output Tokens Per single request	33K	16K
Throughput Speed Tokens generated per second	80 tok/s	120 tok/s
SWE-bench Verified Real-world software engineering	68.5%	44.5%
GPQA Diamond Graduate-level reasoning	77%	56%
Cached Input Price Prompt caching discount per 1M tokens	$0.00 / 1M	$0.03 / 1M

Chi vince in ogni categoria?

At-a-glance decision framework

Coding

Gemma 4 31B

+24.0% SWE-bench lead

Cost

Gemma 4 31B

1.0x cheaper monthly runtime

Speed

Mistral Small 4

+50% faster generation

Context

Gemma 4 31B

262.1K tokens window

Punteggi Benchmark Verificati

Official evaluation metrics verified by independent third-party research labs.

Gemma 4 31BMistral Small 4

SWE-bench Verified (Autonomous Coding)

Industry benchmark evaluating real-world GitHub issue resolution and multi-file debugging.

68.5%vs44.5%

GPQA Diamond (Doctorate-Level Science & Math)

Challenging questions created by domain experts to test complex PhD-level reasoning.

77%vs56%

MMLU-Pro (Multi-task Language Understanding)

Hardened reasoning and academic knowledge benchmark with reduced lucky-guess probability.

84.8%vs78%

LMSYS Chatbot Arena Elo

Crowdsourced human preference evaluation based on blind, head-to-head model battles.

1410ptsvs1315pts

Terminal-Bench (Agentic Coding & Terminal Use)

Autonomous multi-step tasks executed inside a real command-line terminal environment.

N/Avs38%

AIME (Advanced Math Competition)

American Invitational Mathematics Examination — multi-step Olympiad-level reasoning.

86%vs66%

Long-Context Reasoning

Accuracy when reasoning over very large inputs that fill the model context window.

N/Avs80%

Generation Speed (Throughput)

Tokens emitted per second during active generation streaming.

80 tok/s vs120 tok/s

Latenza e Tempo di Risposta

Time to first token (TTFT) and estimated end-to-end response time for a typical 500-token response.

Time to First Token (TTFT)Lower is better

Gemma 4 31B0.48s

Mistral Small 40.34s

Est. End-to-End Response (500 tokens)TTFT + generation time

Gemma 4 31B6.73s

Mistral Small 44.51s

Simulatore Interattivo dei Costi Token

Adjust sliders to calculate projected monthly cloud API spending with prompt caching discounts.

Daily Input Tokens100K / day

10K500K1M

Daily Output Tokens30K / day

5K150K300K

Prompt Cache Hit Ratio50% cached

0% (Cold)50%90% (Warm)

Gemma 4 31B Monthly API Bill

$0.00 / month

$0/1M in · $0/1M out

Mistral Small 4 Monthly API Bill

$0.47 / month

$0.1/1M in · $0.3/1M out

Gemma 4 31B saves approximately $0.47 / month (100%) under this workload.1.0x Savings

Gemma 4 31B · Strengths & Key Advantages

Finestra di contesto da 262K con capacità massima di output fino a 33K token (SWE-bench Verified 68.5% · GPQA Diamond 77%)
Throughput elevato di 80 token/secondo con latenza al primo token (TTFT) di soli 480 ms
Pesi aperti (31B) pronti per il self-hosting locale o su cloud privato tramite vLLM, SGLang o Ollama

Considerations & Trade-offs

Richiede server GPU dedicati con sufficiente memoria VRAM per l’esecuzione locale a piena precisione
Nelle dimostrazioni scientifiche più estreme, i modelli di ragionamento pesante dedicati offrono maggiore profondità

Mistral Small 4 · Strengths & Key Advantages

Finestra di contesto da 256K con capacità massima di output fino a 16K token (SWE-bench Verified 44.5% · GPQA Diamond 56%)
Throughput elevato di 120 token/secondo con latenza al primo token (TTFT) di soli 340 ms
Pesi aperti (24B) pronti per il self-hosting locale o su cloud privato tramite vLLM, SGLang o Ollama

Considerations & Trade-offs

Richiede server GPU dedicati con sufficiente memoria VRAM per l’esecuzione locale a piena precisione
Nelle dimostrazioni scientifiche più estreme, i modelli di ragionamento pesante dedicati offrono maggiore profondità

Token Use & Task Economics

Estimated cost and token consumption to complete one representative agentic task.

Metric	Gemma 4 31B	Mistral Small 4
Cost per Task Estimated USD to finish one task	$0.00	$0.12
Output Tokens / Task Tokens generated per task	12K	28K
Reasoning Tokens / Task Thinking tokens burned per task	6K	12K

Specifiche Tecniche

Architecture, release timeline, capabilities, and modalities.

Feature	Gemma 4 31B	Mistral Small 4
Official API Model ID (SDK)	models/gemma-4-31b	mistral-small-4-latest
API Protocol	Google Gemini API (generateContent) + OpenAI-Compatible SDK	OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI
Release Date	2026-04	2026-03
Knowledge Cutoff	January 2026	January 2026
Architecture	Dense open reasoning transformer with native thinking	Next-Gen Compact Multimodal Transformer
Parameters	31B	24B
Enterprise Rate Limits (RPM / TPM)	Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud	Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud
Long-Context Tier (>128K/200K)	Free across full context window (only KV-cache VRAM scales)	Flat rate ($0.1/1M in) across full 256K window
Prompt Cache Policy & TTL	Automatic prefix KV-caching in vLLM / SGLang (0 cost)	Cached input at $0.03/1M tokens
Computer Use / GUI Agent	Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops)	API / CLI Tool-Use & DOM Agent ready (no raw pixel desktop click loop)
MCP & Parallel Tool Calling	Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema	Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema
Web Search Grounding & Sandbox	Built-in Google Search Grounding + Managed Python Code Execution Sandbox	Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools
Official Fine-Tuning Support	Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory)	Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory)
Multimodal Token Billing	Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile)	Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile)
Quantization & Min GPU VRAM	BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0) · 19 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 67 GB VRAM (Native BF16)	BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0) · 15 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 52 GB VRAM (Native BF16)
Safety & Frontier Classification	Google DeepMind Frontier Safety Framework Verified	Open-Weights System Card + Customizable Guardrail Layer (Llama Guard / ShieldGemma)
Enterprise Compliance (ZDR/HIPAA/SOC2)	100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control	100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control
Input Modalities	text, vision	text, vision
Output Modalities	text	text

Gemma 4 31B vs Mistral Small 4: Risposte Rapide (FAQ)

Which is more intelligent, Gemma 4 31B or Mistral Small 4?

Gemma 4 31B is more intelligent. It scores 81 compared with 48 on the composite Intelligence Index.

Which model is faster?

Mistral Small 4 is faster, generating 120 tokens per second compared with 80 tokens per second.

Which model is cheaper to run?

Gemma 4 31B is cheaper at $0.00 per 1M tokens blended, compared with $0.07 (7:2:1 cache:input:output ratio).

Which model has lower latency?

Mistral Small 4 has lower latency, with a time to first token of 0.34s compared with 0.48s.

Which model has a larger context window?

Gemma 4 31B has a larger context window, supporting 262.1K tokens compared with 256K tokens.

Verdetto

Sia Gemma 4 31B (Ideale per il ragionamento Chain-of-Thought a pesi aperti ad alta efficienza algoritmica, sistemi RAG aziendali e integrazioni API scalabili.) sia Mistral Small 4 (Ideale per le interazioni in tempo reale a bassissima latenza e il routing ad alto volume, sistemi RAG aziendali e integrazioni API scalabili.) eccellono in produzione: Gemma 4 31B guida nei benchmark di ragionamento e programmazione, Mistral Small 4 garantisce una generazione più rapida e Gemma 4 31B offre il miglior rapporto qualità-prezzo per carichi API elevati.

Domande Frequenti (FAQ)

Quale modello è migliore per coding e ragionamento, Gemma 4 31B o Mistral Small 4?+

Nell’indice di intelligenza composito e nei benchmark di programmazione prevale Gemma 4 31B. Consulta i punteggi SWE-bench e GPQA qui sopra per tutti i dettagli.

Qual è la differenza di prezzo API tra Gemma 4 31B e Mistral Small 4?+

Gemma 4 31B costa $0.00 / $0.00 per milione di token di input/output, mentre Mistral Small 4 costa $0.10 / $0.30. Nel costo combinato, Gemma 4 31B risulta più economico.

Quale modello ha la finestra di contesto più ampia e la velocità maggiore?+

Gemma 4 31B supporta 262.1K token di contesto contro 256K token di Mistral Small 4, mentre Mistral Small 4 offre una velocità di generazione superiore.

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Gemma 4 31B vs Mistral Small 4

Cambia e Confronta Qualsiasi Modello

Gemma 4 31B

Mistral Small 4

Chi vince in ogni categoria?

Punteggi Benchmark Verificati

Latenza e Tempo di Risposta

Simulatore Interattivo dei Costi Token

Gemma 4 31B · Strengths & Key Advantages

Considerations & Trade-offs

Mistral Small 4 · Strengths & Key Advantages

Considerations & Trade-offs

Token Use & Task Economics

Specifiche Tecniche

Gemma 4 31B vs Mistral Small 4: Risposte Rapide (FAQ)

Verdetto

Domande Frequenti (FAQ)

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