diff --git a/litellm/litellm_core_utils/llm_cost_calc/google.py b/litellm/litellm_core_utils/llm_cost_calc/google.py
index 26eeb7b7a7..0642f101e9 100644
--- a/litellm/litellm_core_utils/llm_cost_calc/google.py
+++ b/litellm/litellm_core_utils/llm_cost_calc/google.py
@@ -44,7 +44,9 @@ def cost_router(
     Returns
         - str, the specific google cost calc function it should route to.
     """
-    if custom_llm_provider == "vertex_ai" and ("claude" in model or "llama" in model):
+    if custom_llm_provider == "vertex_ai" and (
+        "claude" in model or "llama" in model or "mistral" in model
+    ):
         return "cost_per_token"
     elif custom_llm_provider == "gemini":
         return "cost_per_token"
diff --git a/litellm/tests/test_amazing_vertex_completion.py b/litellm/tests/test_amazing_vertex_completion.py
index 96ea323282..438997b383 100644
--- a/litellm/tests/test_amazing_vertex_completion.py
+++ b/litellm/tests/test_amazing_vertex_completion.py
@@ -904,6 +904,7 @@ from litellm.tests.test_completion import response_format_tests
     "model",
     [
         "vertex_ai/mistral-large@2407",
+        "vertex_ai/mistral-nemo@2407",
         "vertex_ai/meta/llama3-405b-instruct-maas",
     ],  #
 )  # "vertex_ai",