Side-by-side comparison of Gemma 4 (Google · USA) and Mistral Medium 3.5 (Mistral AI · France) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Gemma 4 is rated EU-ready; Mistral Medium 3.5 is EU-ready. They part ways on licence: Gemma 4 is "Apache 2.0", Mistral Medium 3.5 is "Modified MIT".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | EU-ready Major licence shift from Gemma 2/3: Apache 2.0 across the family. 140+ languages, multimodal (text/image/audio/video on small sizes), 128K-256K context. Strong permissive default for EU deployments that need robust multilingual support. | EU-ready Per Mistral's published license, Mistral Medium 3.5 ships under a Modified MIT License: vanilla-MIT terms for independent developers, startups and most enterprises, with a revenue-threshold carve-out that routes large companies back to a paid commercial agreement. Paris-headquartered vendor with EU jurisdiction end to end and a 256k-token context. Training-data composition is not published in the model card — usual caveat for high-assurance public-sector deployments. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-05-03 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Apache 2.0 | Modified MIT |
| Commercial use | Yes | Permitted (revenue cap) |
| Training data | Partial | Undisclosed |
| Origin | USA | EU (France) |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 32/100 | — |
| Speed | — | — |
| Blended price | — | — |
| Context window | — | — |
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