Model comparison
Grok 3 vs Pixtral Large
Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Grok 3 scores higher in 1 category and Pixtral Large in 1 category; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Grok 3 leads 55.8 to 32.9.
- Pixtral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Grok 3 | Pixtral Large | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 39.9 | 32.2 |
| Released | 2025-04-09 | 2024-11-01 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $6 |
| Results tracked | 40 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Grok 3: 41.9 (#115), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 53.3% | — |
| WeirdML | 37.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1432 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Grok 3: 30.5 (#76), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Pixtral Large leads
Grok 3: 13.7 (#333), Pixtral Large: 21.7 (#218)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 36.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 61.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5.5% | — |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1434 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 138.33 | — |
Math Not comparable
Grok 3: 38.0 (#145), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 55.6% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 46.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1391 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 88.7% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 3.8% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Grok 3: 46.2 (#82), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 75.8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.8% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.2% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1421 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Grok 3: —, Pixtral Large: 30.6 (#111)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1089 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Grok 3: 52.3 (#87), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1410 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1448 | — |
| LMArena French | 1460 | — |
| LMArena German | 1431 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1387 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1373 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1416 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1417 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Grok 3: 75.0 (#73), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 88.4% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1409 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Grok 3: 38.7 (#192), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 58.3% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1439 | — |
Writing & Preference Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 55.8 (#141), Pixtral Large: 32.9 (#278)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1186 | 988 |
| LMArena Text | 1426 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1414 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.4% | — |
| WildBench | 84.9% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1425 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok 3 better than Pixtral Large?
Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Grok 3 and Pixtral Large share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral Large has 3.