Model comparison
Grok 3 vs Mistral 7B
Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 22.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 3 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 3 leads 46.0 to 7.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 88.7% for Grok 3 and 3.7% for Mistral 7B.
- Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Grok 3 | Mistral 7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 39.6 | 22.9 |
| Released | 2025-04-09 | 2023-09-27 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 8K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Results tracked | 40 | 37 |
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Category by category
Coding Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 41.5 (#113), Mistral 7B: 25.9 (#321)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1432 | 1082 |
| Aider Polyglot | 53.3% | — |
| WeirdML | 37.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 19.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 36% |
| MBPP+ | — | 42.1% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Grok 3: 30.2 (#69), Mistral 7B: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 13.8 (#322), Mistral 7B: 12.6 (#331)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1433 | 1067 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 138.34 | 111.97 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 36.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 61.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 42.5% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 47.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 56.1% |
| HellaSwag | — | 81% |
| PIQA | — | 83% |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.3% |
Math Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 36.2 (#122), Mistral 7B: 7.6 (#319)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 55.6% | 0.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1390 | 1085 |
| MATH Level 5 | 88.7% | 3.7% |
| Omni-MATH | 46.4% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 3.8% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 54.4% |
Knowledge Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 46.0 (#76), Mistral 7B: 7.3 (#306)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 75.8% | 15.2% |
| LMArena Expert | 1420 | 1036 |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.8% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.2% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 87.4% |
| MMLU | — | 62.5% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 79.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 75.2% |
Multilingual Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 52.5 (#81), Mistral 7B: 26.0 (#278)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1411 | 1012 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1448 | 1009 |
| LMArena French | 1460 | 1036 |
| LMArena German | 1431 | 987 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1389 | 878 |
| LMArena Russian | 1416 | 1018 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1417 | 1026 |
| LMArena Korean | 1374 | — |
Instruction Following Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 75.2 (#69), Mistral 7B: 54.5 (#275)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1409 | 1060 |
| IFEval | 88.4% | — |
Long Context Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 38.7 (#187), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#266)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1439 | 1060 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 58.3% | — |
Writing & Preference Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 56.0 (#136), Mistral 7B: 30.9 (#281)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1426 | 1090 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1414 | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1424 | 1062 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.4% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| WildBench | 84.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok 3 better than Mistral 7B?
Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 22.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Grok 3 or Mistral 7B better for coding?
Grok 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.5 versus 25.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Grok 3 and Mistral 7B share?
20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.