Model comparison
Grok 4.1 vs Mistral 7B
Grok 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4.1 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 4.1 leads 39.5 to 7.4.
- Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Grok 4.1 | Mistral 7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 41.5 | 23.0 |
| Released | 2025-11-17 | 2023-09-27 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 8K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Results tracked | 19 | 37 |
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Category by category
Coding Grok 4.1 leads
Grok 4.1: 33.7 (#253), Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1445 | 1082 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1214 | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 19.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 36% |
| MBPP+ | — | 42.1% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Grok 4.1: 34.1 (#49), Mistral 7B: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 39% | — |
Reasoning Grok 4.1 leads
Grok 4.1: 29.5 (#91), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1435 | 1067 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 42.5% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 47.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 56.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 112.21 |
| HellaSwag | — | 81% |
| PIQA | — | 83% |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.3% |
Math Grok 4.1 leads
Grok 4.1: 38.9 (#120), Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1422 | 1085 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 0.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 3.7% |
| GSM8K | — | 54.4% |
Knowledge Grok 4.1 leads
Grok 4.1: 39.5 (#133), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1417 | 1036 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 15.2% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 87.4% |
| MMLU | — | 62.5% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 79.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 75.2% |
Multilingual Grok 4.1 leads
Grok 4.1: 53.4 (#68), Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1425 | 1012 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1465 | 1009 |
| LMArena French | 1448 | 1037 |
| LMArena German | 1446 | 987 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1397 | 878 |
| LMArena Russian | 1434 | 1018 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1438 | 1026 |
| LMArena Korean | 1407 | — |
Instruction Following Grok 4.1 leads
Grok 4.1: 73.8 (#111), Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1400 | 1060 |
Long Context Grok 4.1 leads
Grok 4.1: 43.2 (#100), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1416 | 1060 |
Writing & Preference Grok 4.1 leads
Grok 4.1: 62.4 (#75), Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1437 | 1090 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1411 | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1437 | 1062 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok 4.1 better than Mistral 7B?
Grok 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Grok 4.1 or Mistral 7B better for coding?
Grok 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.7 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Grok 4.1 and Mistral 7B share?
16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4.1 has 19 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.