Noometry

Model comparison

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) vs Mistral 7B

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) xAI

33.7

Rank #239 Confirmed

Mistral 7B Mistral AI

23.0

Rank #351 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok-2 (Dec 2024) scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads 29.8 to 7.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 63.5% for Grok-2 (Dec 2024) and 3.7% for Mistral 7B.
  • Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok-2 (Dec 2024)Mistral 7B
ProviderxAIMistral AI
Noometry Index33.723.0
Released2024-08-132023-09-27
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—8K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$0.25
Results tracked3437

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Category by category

Coding Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 33.3 (#258), Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Mistral 7B
LMArena Coding12871082
WeirdML22.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—19.5%
LiveBench Coding46.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete—27.3%
HumanEval+—36%
MBPP+—42.1%

Reasoning Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 16.9 (#299), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Mistral 7B
LMArena Hard Prompts12721067
DTBench65.2%42.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index130.48112.21
SimpleBench22.7%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning54.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis54.5%—
Adversarial NLI—47.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—56.1%
HellaSwag—81%
LiveBench54.3%—
PIQA—83%
WinoGrande—75.3%

Math Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 20.8 (#284), Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Mistral 7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202511.5%0.3%
LMArena Math12831085
MATH Level 563.5%3.7%
LiveBench Math54.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.7%—
GSM8K—54.4%

Knowledge Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 29.8 (#233), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Mistral 7B
GPQA Diamond53.8%15.2%
LMArena Expert12541036
Confabulations20.1%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.6%
BoolQ—87.4%
MMLU—62.5%
OpenBookQA—79.8%
TriviaQA—75.2%

Multilingual Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 43.1 (#188), Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Mistral 7B
LMArena Non-English12821012
LMArena Chinese12891009
LMArena French13181037
LMArena German1287987
LMArena Japanese1244878
LMArena Russian12861018
LMArena Spanish12811026
LMArena Korean1237—

Instruction Following Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 66.9 (#202), Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Mistral 7B
LMArena Instruction Following12701060
LiveBench Instruction Following69.6%—

Long Context Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 38.8 (#190), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Mistral 7B
LMArena Longer Query12761060

Writing & Preference Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 48.6 (#198), Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Mistral 7B
LMArena Text13051090
LMArena Creative Writing12841068
LMArena Multi-Turn12901062
Short-Story Creative Writing63.6%—
LiveBench Language45.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok-2 (Dec 2024) better than Mistral 7B?

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok-2 (Dec 2024) or Mistral 7B better for coding?

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.3 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok-2 (Dec 2024) and Mistral 7B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok-2 (Dec 2024) has 34 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.

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